Originally Posted by
Banzai
Percentages.
You don't feel the 16t as an absolute. You feel it as a percentage of ratio changed.
The percentage jumps are getting ridiculous.
One of the purposes of using a smaller double is to do less front shifting, though. It basically becomes a 1x-plus-bailout.
Without using smaller rings, it's hard to get super-low bottom gears or a low big-ring bottom gear unless you use a very wide-range cassette, and frequent wide rear-shift jumps can be more annoying than an occasional front shift being a few percent bigger.
A triple fixes both problems, but they're losing support.
