Originally Posted by
HTupolev
It's also why I think it's silly that interleaved gearing hasn't been brought back. A front shift of just a few teeth could be made extremely snappy and smooth with modern shift gates. Synchro would eliminate the human aspect of double-shifting. With just a 2x11 you could have a gearing range of >500% with all gearing steps in the 7-11% range.
"Half-step" gearing was great in the days of six speed freewheels, but it's pretty hard to configure such a system so that two chain rings stay interleaved through 11 or 12 gears.