I recently bought my first geared bike (Yeti sb66) in 10 years. This thing has miles of chain and I had forgotten how noisy a multi-geared drive-train can be. The bike is a 3x10 with a mix of SRAM x7 and x9 bits. I think I want to drop the big ring off the bike; I'm not using it where I ride and I'd like to take out a lot of the slack in the drive-train.
The rule of thumb in the past was to take your chain around your biggest rings in the front and back without going through the derailleur, then add a link for correct chain sizing. Does that still hold true?
Am I going to need to drop down to a medium cage rear derailleur to work with the 2x10 setup or will the long cage work well enough?
Any chainline issues I should consider? I'd think that it's current line should be good; it seems to run fine all over the cassette from the middle ring and I know better than to cross it from small ring to small cogs.
The rule of thumb in the past was to take your chain around your biggest rings in the front and back without going through the derailleur, then add a link for correct chain sizing. Does that still hold true?
Am I going to need to drop down to a medium cage rear derailleur to work with the 2x10 setup or will the long cage work well enough?
Any chainline issues I should consider? I'd think that it's current line should be good; it seems to run fine all over the cassette from the middle ring and I know better than to cross it from small ring to small cogs.