"It's all in the front of my mind as I just pulled my friction-shifter 9-speed drivetrain off my Rifty - derailleur, cassette, shifter, crankset, ring - to install an example of the latest-and-greatest that I'm reviewing for NSMB.com. It promises to deliver the wide-range, indexed many-speed, clutch-quieted, narrow-wide-ring retained drivetrain expectations of current riders but uses the HG-freehub standard released around 1980 and the BSA BB standard released sometime in pre-history. "
Alright, you've got my attention. My 12s experiences have been lukewarm at best so far. The currently reigning champion of suitable low gear vs most usable gearing gaps vs cost vs not fussy recently has been Advent X, but I'm hoping for some other option just to see what's out there.