Originally Posted by Kamele0N
Originally Posted by supton
It's crazy what they are putting into cassettes these days. I'm old school and run a relatively narrow cassette. But then again both my road bikes are triples so the granny is there "just in case". I pretty much only use it on dirt roads.
+1.... I dont get 1x11 or 1x12 designs.....
1x is so you don't have to worry about chain drops.
Road and mountain biking are different when it comes to terrain and hills.
My road bike has a chain watcher up front (as specialized installed one at the factory), and has a 10-speed 32T cassette put in with an 9-speed XT rear derailleur by the bike shop, to go with the compact crank
my mountain bike, I removed the big and small chain ring, and went with a 11-34T cassette with a raceface narrow-wide chain ring, so it's effectively a hacked together 1x10.
Eventually when I go carbon fiber, I would like a Carbon fiber cross bike, to go with a 1x drivetrain and put road wheels/tires for the road and the cross wheel/tires for dirt roads and easy singletrack