What's the scoop on Rotor Q-Rings?
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What's the scoop on Rotor Q-Rings?
A nearby LBS is pushing several riders in our group to change to these oval, elliptical, Rotor Q-Rings saying they are better all around.
What is BF's take on these things?
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They suck. I ran them for a few years and went back. I have a more comfortable pedal stroke now that I don't use them.
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Yes. I hated the super exact settings necessary to actually be able to up-shift. Even then it was a crapshoot. Once I went back to round (praxis incidentally) and I initially set the FD it shifted precisely. Fine tuned it and it shifted on a razor blade (metaphorically I suppose).
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This is a myth, there's really nothing to it. You just measure above the highest point and that's it. I have them on both mechanical and electronic groupsets, and it doesn't take any longer to set up than with round rings.
To the OP: I use them on all of my bikes except my fixed-gear track bike. Luddites on BF who have never tried them will say that they don't work, yet strangely enough every time I go to one of my time trials I see them all over the place and most of the fastest guys using them. I won't try to convince you though, since you probably already have your mind made up and BF collective ignorance will dominate the conversation anyway.
To the OP: I use them on all of my bikes except my fixed-gear track bike. Luddites on BF who have never tried them will say that they don't work, yet strangely enough every time I go to one of my time trials I see them all over the place and most of the fastest guys using them. I won't try to convince you though, since you probably already have your mind made up and BF collective ignorance will dominate the conversation anyway.
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My biggest hate on it was my threshold cadence around 110. when you bottom out the pedal stroke the crank whips your foot past the 6 o'clock up to 9 o'clock because the load on the pedal decreases so suddenly. At high cadence and descending it was a very lurching sensation. Climbing, down at threshold cadence below 50, was a dream though