Originally Posted by
jonathanf2
Yeah, use your brain. Bigger cassette to attack the hills, larger chainring to go faster on the flats. Plus not all us cyclists are scrawny weenies who attack hills in saddle, some of us actually have muscle to power up with the big chainring.
Your logic isn't following, Jonathan. Using a larger chainring will negate (or mostly negate) the lower gearing you got by going with a larger cassette. Your only gain would be at the higher end. Especially considering our part of the world isn't flat, a 1x becomes a compromise where you lose range at both ends of the spectrum, and have wider jumps in the middle. If that compromise works for you, that's cool, but understand that it's still a compromise.