Originally Posted by
70sSanO
8 speed is the ugly step child. It never really found a home.
Of course half of our 8 bikes are 8 speed.
But over the years I have acquired a stash of enough various cassettes, individual cogs, and spacers that I can build just about anything I want by mixing and matching cogs and brands. My franken-cassettes include 8 speed 13-40 and 14-36.
If I were starting from scratch today, I’d just go to 9 speed.
John
You said a lot in this post and have said a lot in other posts too, which I do appreciate, thank you, but this website is not set up for detailed responses and I have been timed out a few times now, then having to circumnavigate some roadblocks where if I make one mistake then my return post vanishes, poof, gone, my time and effort wasted.