Originally Posted by
Classtime
Saturday, I started with the local training ride which is attended by many accomplished and current 50 and 60+ National Champions. Of course, most have new bikes with electronic shifting and disk brakes. But what struck me was that most of these guys and gals had huge cogsets. Many of them went to 34! Now compact cranksets have been popular for some time but 34 tooth cogs on a road racing bike? Makes me think of doing that to my modern bike.
Hi, I live in the mountains. My rim brake road bike has a 50-34 compact with a 40 cassette using a wolf tooth. Yes, this sounds strange to most having a 40 cassette on a road bike and is commonplace here. My disk road bike has shimanno 12 speed 50-34, and 34 cassette which is my only choice at this time for cassette. I have never looked back using the 40. Have fun….