Help with chainring replacement
This may be a stupid question but due to the fact I have only been cycling for a year and over the last few months I'm only just getting into the maintanence side is this possible!
I bought last year a Giant SCR C2 which came with a shimano compact chainset 34/50 and dew to increased performance what is the possibility of changing the outer chainring to a 52 or 53 tooth leaving the 34 inner ring for hill climbs. I feel this would give me a better selection of gears as I'm finding downhill I'm running out of gears. I'm using a 42/52 on the turbo trainer and before I bought the Giant bike I was using this chainset on the road without any problems until I reached a steep incline.
Is there any compatability issues with either the 10 speed cassette or stretch in the chain?
Many thanks in advance
I bought last year a Giant SCR C2 which came with a shimano compact chainset 34/50 and dew to increased performance what is the possibility of changing the outer chainring to a 52 or 53 tooth leaving the 34 inner ring for hill climbs. I feel this would give me a better selection of gears as I'm finding downhill I'm running out of gears. I'm using a 42/52 on the turbo trainer and before I bought the Giant bike I was using this chainset on the road without any problems until I reached a steep incline.
Is there any compatability issues with either the 10 speed cassette or stretch in the chain?
Many thanks in advance
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Thanks REDDDRAGGON
Yes of course I see, it would be quiet a big jump from a 34 to 53. Are there any other options with gear ratios.0 -
What cassette are you running? If the smallest sprocket is a 12, you could change the cassette to a 11-21 or 11-23. A 50-11 gives you a bigger gear than a 53-12 I think. Then you don't have the shifting issue mentioned by red.0
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APIII wrote:What cassette are you running? If the smallest sprocket is a 12, you could change the cassette to a 11-21 or 11-23. A 50-11 gives you a bigger gear than a 53-12 I think. Then you don't have the shifting issue mentioned by red.
Aye that's roughly what I do. 50/34 and 11-25 on my good bike. 50/11 is bigger than 53/12 and 34/25 is sufficiently small enough to get me up anything.0 -
Yes I believe It's a 12/25 cassette, If that gives me the bigger gear then thats the way to go!
Thinking about that I have a Durace 9 speed 11/21 on the turbo trainer bike and I could just swap over the cassettes, would the swapping of 10 speed to 9 be a problem?
The only other thing with that is I do loose out on the bottom end on hills.0 -
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Ok, thanks for all your help guys a new cassette it is!0
