Shimsham 105 double -> triple?

ant evans

Dura Ace double and triple cranks are supposed to be identical, presumably just with extra bits on the middle chainring of a triple to attach the little one to.

Make sense?

So can you do the same for 105, which is geometrically identical?

I hate to spoil the clean lines of my yearling thoroughbred etc etc but I have knee trouble, which you can read about elsewhere.

I also don't like Shimano's rear ratios (they have 2-tooth gaps exactly where you spend most time in the real world (5th and 6th)) so I need to go to closer ratios. That also sounds like another thread.

ant

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maarten

You can buy separate cogs miche has every cog you might want with shimano passing between 11 and 26(and even some bigger)

you can make a 14-16-18-19-20-21-22-23-24(9-speed) casette if you want to.

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ant evans

<rant>
I've just got a 13-23, just to get a 16t cog (the others were a bit worn out anyway), and Shimano seem hell-bent on making it impossible to mix and match sprockets. They rivet the damned things together in arbitrary sets of 2 or 3. What the hell is wrong with them?

I can't combine the 13-23 and the 12-27 to make a 12-27 with a 15 and 15 on 5th and 6th. Thank you so much, Shimano, you
morons.

If they were doing this to make a stiffer structure, then they wouldn't have given me a single 23 sprocket for 1st gear.

An 11 speed cassette is not going to solve this if they keep sticking the damn sprockets together. It will just mean a more expensive form of frustration.

I shall be speaking to Highpath Engineering or even Signore Campagnolo before long.
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