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    Brendan Halpin said:

    So, can I get rid of the triple and go to a compact double? Do I
    need the 28/28 or will a 34/29 be enough?
    ...
    ... I keep grinding, need to manage my breathing
    carefully for the last few hundred metres, but finally get there. I
    can do it, but it seems not without a triple.

    It depends on a lot of factors- the main one being how you want to
    climb. If you want to be able to crawl up a long grade, perhaps with a
    touring load on the bike, then you need low gears. If you are the kind
    of rider who will always want to power up a grade at speed and never
    carry a load then you'll never use them.

    It's possible, I daresay, to get the low gear you need from a double-
    the "MegaRange" style cassettes with a 34t big sprocket would give you
    exactly the same gear ratio as your 28/28, though whether you would be
    able to get a setup that shifted smoothly over the range you need I'm
    not sure...

    Still, if your current setup works for you... why change it?

    Cheers,
    W.

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  2. Brian G
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    Quoted message said:
    Brendan Halpin said:

    So, can I get rid of the triple and go to a compact double? Do I
    need the 28/28 or will a 34/29 be enough?
    ...

    Quoted message said:

    It's possible, I daresay, to get the low gear you need from a double-
    the "MegaRange" style cassettes with a 34t big sprocket would give you
    exactly the same gear ratio as your 28/28, though whether you would be
    able to get a setup that shifted smoothly over the range you need I'm
    not sure...

    Still, if your current setup works for you... why change it?

    Of course not, if you're happy with the triple, what you need is another
    bike with a double ;-)

    --
    Brian G
    www.wetwo.co.uk

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  3. Roger Merriman
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    Brian G said:
    Quoted message said:
    Brendan Halpin said:

    So, can I get rid of the triple and go to a compact double? Do I
    need the 28/28 or will a 34/29 be enough?
    ...

    Quoted message said:

    It's possible, I daresay, to get the low gear you need from a double-
    the "MegaRange" style cassettes with a 34t big sprocket would give you
    exactly the same gear ratio as your 28/28, though whether you would be
    able to get a setup that shifted smoothly over the range you need I'm
    not sure...

    Still, if your current setup works for you... why change it?

    Of course not, if you're happy with the triple, what you need is another
    bike with a double ;-)

    heh, just the matter of where to store them...

    roger

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    (Roger Merriman) said:
    Brian G said:

    ... what you need is another
    bike with a double ;-)

    heh, just the matter of where to store them...

    I'm currently using a distributed storage policy: one at home in the
    shed, one at the bike shed at work and one at the station: rotate as
    necessary for repairs and to get the right bike in the right place at
    the right time...

    Cheers,
    W.

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  5. Roger Merriman
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    Quoted message said:
    (Roger Merriman) said:
    Brian G said:

    ... what you need is another
    bike with a double ;-)

    heh, just the matter of where to store them...

    I'm currently using a distributed storage policy: one at home in the
    shed, one at the bike shed at work and one at the station: rotate as
    necessary for repairs and to get the right bike in the right place at
    the right time...

    Cheers,
    W.

    ahh i have one new mountain bike with disks and mud tires and what not +
    my old mountain bike with road tires, which snuggle up together in the
    shed, which is full, even after lots of sortings.

    and then there are two commutor bikes in the garden. i'm probably up to
    my limits on bikes, at some point when i'm not going from one side of
    the land to the other i might get a racer type, and then will have to
    see where that can live...

    roger

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  6. Sara Kirk
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    In article <[email hidden]>,

    (Roger Merriman) said:

    i'm probably up to
    my limits on bikes, at some point when i'm not going from one side of
    the land to the other i might get a racer type, and then will have to
    see where that can live...

    Not at the house. Four is plenty.

    --
    Sara

    The teeth are free at last! Fly free, young teethies!

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  7. Simon Brooke
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    in message <[email hidden]>, Sara Kirk

    (') said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,

    (Roger Merriman) said:

    i'm probably up to
    my limits on bikes, at some point when i'm not going from one side of
    the land to the other i might get a racer type, and then will have to
    see where that can live...

    Not at the house. Four is plenty.

    Meanie!

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    [email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

    ;; When all else fails, read the distractions.

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  8. Roger Merriman
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    Sara Kirk said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,

    (Roger Merriman) said:

    i'm probably up to
    my limits on bikes, at some point when i'm not going from one side of
    the land to the other i might get a racer type, and then will have to
    see where that can live...

    Not at the house. Four is plenty.

    heh!

    roger

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