Originally Posted by
cyccommute
Why not? It’s not your choice for what kind of gearing Eugene23 uses. It’s his. If you don’t want to use a wide gear range, don’t! But don’t try to tell others what kind of gearing they should have, need, or desire.
I have bikes with 50/39/24 crankset with an 11-34 cassette. That’s an 18” low and a 122” high. Just because I like to climb in some comfort, doesn’t mean I want to coast down the hills I climb up.
That’s true. But if you wanted to swap a 50t to a 40t to get higher gears, I’d probably say the same thing to you.
I think the OP wants lower gears, but without any more detail from the OP, who knows. His Marin is a current gravel bike. How well the FD plays with a mtb crank and the 40t could be another issue; and it is harder to hack a mtb FD with a triple.
Unfortunately the current 8/9 speed Shimano road drivetrains don’t integrate as the current 10/11 speed gravel options do. Triples don’t help either as the R3000 double left shifter would probably work with a mtb FD. The 4700 does.
John