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My average ride, starting at home, involves the whole cassette. I rarely do an uphill where i don't put it into the 50T and i have relatively long tarmac/gravel transfers with a slight downhill, where i put it into the 10T gear. I have a 30T in the front on a 29er.

I put GX Eagle on my previous bike as an upgrade and it was a revelation how limiting the 420 % of the 11spd was - i was seriously straining myself on steep climbs with a cadence that was too low when i actually much prefer a higher cadence of an easier gear.

On another note, it's rare that i want an easier gear than the 50T and while there are cases, i think it's even rarer it would actually be a benefit.

And then roadies argue MTB drivetrains have jumps that are too big between gears...

With a short inseam you can always cut them off. Not with a long inseam.

I actually have problems finding shorts long enough to not have a thigh gap and i'm not even 36 inches in the inseam department.

I have good experience with the Agent shorts, but the fit could be better. They bunched up a bit around the pocket zippers and exposed my knee a bit too much. But the shorts might be different to the pants.

Look at Norrona. They do 86 cm inseam in L for the Fjora pants. Though at 91 cm inseam, trying them on i wasn't too optimistic that they would fit right, considering bent knees once you pedal.

Greg is an XXL guy at 196 cm if i'm not mistaken. L is well under 190 cm if you have an XXL bike in your lineup.

As for Norco's chainstays, they move the BB forwards and kill pedalling performance that way since they slacken out the seat tube angle for the riders that need it the steepest. At least that's how they used to do it, i hope they have changed their ways for the better.

I was really happy to see someone offering custom clothing and shorts in different lengths. I was sad to see the medium comes in 14" as the longest option. I currently ride 15" shorts and even those are too short!

I hate this so much... See above, i can't even get shorts to be long enough (yeah, sounds weird, but i suppose you understand that).

Thanks for the info. L through XXL pants should be 83 cm inseam (32 3/4 inch). I'm running the shorts that have a 15 inch inseam (the Agent ones, but i also have a pair of Ambush shorts and a Dakine Derail, which are all 15 inch inseam) and they are on the short side, to even prevent pad gap on my thigh they would need to be 16 or ideally even 17 inch :/

Looked at the 7mesh stuff, holy cow, finally some long enough shorts (mostly). But, holy somethingelseentirely the pricing?! :D

EDIT: i have a to-the-floor inseam of around 91 cm. And i'm an M waist size :/

That would be a relatively good measurement, but you also have wildly different offsets to think about then.

Plus this is mainly an issue for taller riders, who get sat much farther to the back. It could be an issue for smaller riders as well, who effectively get an even steeper seat tube angle, but given the rotation of the main frame due to differing sag values the issue is less pronounced.

Speaking of sag and climbing, seating further back over the rear axle makes changes in sag while climbing again even more pronounced for taller riders, where the actual angle gets even more slack (because you set the sag with the bike being level).

I'd say for anything that has to be pedalled up the hill (this of course includes enduro class of bikes), the primary geometry considerations should be cockpit geometry while being sat down. We spend much less time descending to optimize purely for that compared to pedalling up the hill.

Then i wouldn't be surprised if having more or less the same weight distributions of front vs. rear would bring the effective ride quality comparing different sizes of frames more in-line with each other. Maybe that would mean a steeper seat tube angle for the XL frame, which would be then sagged lower while climbing, even longer top tubes, maybe even longer chainstays (but not the Norco way, where the move the BB forwards on larger bikes to lengthen them, thereby again decreasing the seat tube angle).

It might even mean different suspension geometries between sizes!