Originally Posted by
ooga-booga
definitely recommended.
I will soon give the 11-28 cassette a try to see if I can deal with the 17T to 15T jump. I definitely could not when I first joined BF in late 2020 (to discuss the holy grail of making a Frankenstein 12-28 cassette rather than buying the Dura-Ace version), but you guys in this subforum have inspired me to do more climbing so hopefully I am marginally stronger now.