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As per the title... My current winter road bike has a 34/50 and a 12-30 cassette and plenty of overlapping gears. I never use the 12, very rarely the 13, and not all that often the 14T cogs when on the 50T ring on my winter bike as generally in the winter, I'm more worried about staying upright than I am going fast.
Sooooo... With a 42T ring, and an 11-36 cassette, I've worked out the 42/36 bottom gear would be almost identical to the current 34/30, and the 42/11 top gear is again just about identical to the 50/13 (which is my 2nd tallest gear currently), so effectively I'd only be losing out on one ratio (that I never use). I appreciate the cassette will have some slightly larger ratio gaps, but only slightly.
Basically, I've all but convinced myself I need 1x11 on my winter bike... Unlike 1x11 on MTB's though, it's still very rare and I don't know any people with any actual experience of running it so far. So anyone with any experience, good, bad or indifferent, please fire away. Would love to hear what you've got to say!
If you stick with shimano use a Lindarets road link. You can then run up to 40t on a standard mech. I'm Running 1x10 on the Gnarmac bike 11-36 on a short mech.
Would be sticking with SRAM rather than switching to Shimano to be fair. Do you find your setup limiting at all?
Yeah, I suppose technically I do. I use my cross bike for all my winter road riding, with 28c road tyres and full mudguards on it. I have the SRAM CX1 stuff. 42 t chainring and a 11-36 cassette. I didn't even think about it being "1x" at first, until I started joining in on some group rides in the spring and I started getting comments about it. 42x11 is a pretty big gear, even on a flat road. I replaced the chain twice this year, after about 1200 miles each time. Don't know if it needed it, but with the rings and cassettes being more expensive, I thought I'd actually stay on top of the maintenance for once.
11 - 36 sounds like 10 speed to me?
Yes it is 10, but the link works on 11sp too. It works really well on this type of bike. Maybe a skinny beast with 120psi of fast rubber needs the double! Unless you live on the Fens!
I'd not be changing my current set up. Why worry about gears that overlap or one's you don't use ? As long as you have all the gears you actually need just crack on.
what I meant was - mboy is talking about going 1 x 11 then says "With a 42T ring, and an 11-36 cassette, I've worked out the 42/36 bottom gear would be almost identical to the current 34/30, and the 42/11 top gear is again just about identical to the 50/13" which sounds like 1 x 10?
It's an 11spd CX setup actually charliemort. SRAM do an 11-36 PC1170 cassette now to go with their CX1 groupset.
I'm thinking of putting it on a winter road bike that's all...
I'd be more worried about the jumps in the block than the top and bottom ratios.
So with a lindarets thing I could run a 11-36 10spd cassette with a single ring up front on a 10spd 105 short cage mech?
Dragon +1. The gaps in my 11-28 annoy me. 11-36 would drive me nuts!