1 By For Road convo again

[Pabst]

These threads always devolve into using edge cases of edge cases to prove a point.

Maybe a good time to merge to the 1x mega thread.

The Death of 1x Drivetrains Revisited

Just revisiting this VeloNews article with maybe a little different nuance. In case you missed it, here is the money shot: [image] This takes me way, WAY back to when I first got the cross-chaining dataset from Jason. Then as now there was some banter back and forth but the thing that stuck in my head was, ‘Hey, bigger gears are more efficient in a chain driven system.’ When I say bigger gears I mean physically bigger cogs and chainrings. Add up the teeth on the cog plus the teeth on the …