Originally Posted by tangerineowl

Because if I were in the big ring on the flats I would be in the second half of the cassette where the jumps are bigger around the two/three main cogs I'd be.

With my setup I can stay in the big ring quite a lot with slight cog jumps. Dump into small at steeper stuff and when casually exploring off road.

I'm fine with coasting once gears run out. Any faster and I will miss that interesting thing over that way 🙂