Originally Posted by
globecanvas
Given the original question (light weight vs gears) sounds like the consensus is to choose gears over light weight, thanks guys.
But, I wasn't thinking about things properly. The lighter bike has a hollowgram crank, and the hollowgram system is very cool because you can swap out any part individually. I can just get a 110 spider for it and use compact chainrings I already have.
yes, this is a cool feature of systems like c'dale and SPZ....i have some MTB spiders for hollowgram if you wanted to go super low with gearing, or the "spidering" (i think that's the actual name!) if you want to go that route.