Small sprockets

joeyp101
joeyp101 Posts: 26
edited March 2009 in Workshop
Does anyone know if cassettes such as 10-23 or 9-23 exist anywhere?

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  • Mister W
    Mister W Posts: 791
    There was someone on here earlier in the week talking about a 9 he has on a bike with small wheels but that's the only time I've ever heard of anything smaller than an 11. Can I ask why you want a cog that small?
  • joeyp101
    joeyp101 Posts: 26
    i just like having a low cadence, and it feels like 53-11 combo just isnt enough for me on the steep stuff
  • kozzo
    kozzo Posts: 182
    joeyp101 wrote:
    53-11 combo just isnt enough for me on the steep stuff

    Are you sure? :?:

    :lol:
  • joeyp101
    joeyp101 Posts: 26
    yes im sure :roll:
  • balthazar
    balthazar Posts: 1,565
    If you look closely at your 11 sprocket, you'll note that it can't get any smaller: the base diameter of the teeth is barely larger than the freehub lockring. If you want a higher gear, you'll need to fit a larger chainring. I tnink that EggRings and Middleburn, for example, make them.

    Enormous chainrings were quite the fashion for a time in British time-trialling; club riders would push 60 tooth chainrings even though they were going slower than European racers on ordinary gears...
  • joeyp101
    joeyp101 Posts: 26
    yeah i thought as much, thanks for the constructive reply balthazar.
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    joeyp101 wrote:
    i just like having a low cadence, and it feels like 53-11 combo just isnt enough for me on the steep stuff

    Learn to pedal faster
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  • joeyp101
    joeyp101 Posts: 26
    Learn to pedal faster

    WOW

    GREAT TIP

    jeeze
  • balthazar
    balthazar Posts: 1,565
    http://www.highpath.net/cycles/eggs/02.html#prices

    Eggrings. *gulp* at the prices though.
  • Mister W
    Mister W Posts: 791
    reddraggon has given you the most useful piece of advice you're going to get on this thread. It's more efficient and better for your knees to spin rather than grind a big gear.
  • DomPro
    DomPro Posts: 321
    I hardly even use the 12T !!
    Shazam !!
  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    Oh-oh - another Nick Bowdler in the making!

    I think when he says steep stuff, he means downhill..
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • balthazar
    balthazar Posts: 1,565
    Mister W wrote:
    It's more efficient and better for your knees to spin rather than grind a big gear.

    I've never been convinced by this advocation which everybody repeats as part of the usual cycling gospel. The "winter fixed wheel" riders who flamboyantly spin unnaturally fast downhill, are still pedalling very slowly uphill, but nobody cites this as evidence for the benefits of low cadence. In the absence of contrary evidence, I suggest that cadence is as much a matter of individual gait as other characteristics such as ankling, or ordinary walking style.

    In any case, the question was a technical one with no invitation to dispute its rationale. Why not answer in kind.
  • joeyp101
    joeyp101 Posts: 26
    *claps* balthazar - nice post :) so true
  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    joeyp101 wrote:
    *claps* balthazar - nice post :) so true
    Agreed.

    This "Exploding knees" myth came in with the internet. So many people repeat it and it is rarely questioned, but I don't know any old timers from the days when the low gears available now were unheard of who suffer from knee problems.

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