I always see trials bikes with road derailleurs and/or cassettes. Anyone wanna fill me in on why that is? Am I the only one here who doesn't know this?
Road casettes get used becasue if you using a fairly small (30 tooth or less) you are never going to use the really big cogs on a mountian cassette becasue there just to easy. also it is common for mountain cassettes to have a 12 tooth smallest cog, while road cassettes often have a 11 tooth small cog. That one less tooth make the small cog about 10% harder, which is useful for riding from spot to spot. Road derailleurs get used becasue they are more compact (don't get in the way/don't get broken) and tend to have crisper shifting. I use both and couldn't be happier (well mabye if I had a single speed or a gearbox/internaly geared bike.)
while we are on the sublect....(sorry for the jacking)
can someone recomend a small 9-speed road cassette that will work with a short cage Shimano 105 dr. I am using an XT cassette & want something I can use all the gears on.
no problem (I think this thread was pretty much dead anyway)
I went the the ultegra 11-23, Its working just fine. no problems so far I've had it for comming up on a year.
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