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  • curto80
    curto80 Posts: 314
    I can't get my head round why people are so angry and defensive about others trying 1x set ups on their road bikes.

    SRAM Force 1 is an incredible piece of kit. There is 1 gear lever rather than 4 on a standard 105/Ultegra set-up. The range that something like a 46-11/36 gives you is pretty close to a compact 11-28 set-up. The bigger gaps aren't a big deal.

    You don't have to want to try it, but whenever someone is over-defensive about something it always makes me question what they really think.
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  • davep1
    davep1 Posts: 837
    Curto80 wrote:
    I can't get my head round why people are so angry and defensive about others trying 1x set ups on their road bikes.

    SRAM Force 1 is an incredible piece of kit. There is 1 gear lever rather than 4 on a standard 105/Ultegra set-up. The range that something like a 46-11/36 gives you is pretty close to a compact 11-28 set-up. The bigger gaps aren't a big deal.

    You don't have to want to try it, but whenever someone is over-defensive about something it always makes me question what they really think.

    I just don't like it, I'm not defensive about it, I am aggressively against it. :twisted: My road set up is 52-36 and 11-32, so already a bigger range than your recommended half-by set up, without the huge jumps in size at the back. Never mind that half-by just looks shit...

    To me, the versatility of a double (or even triple) far outweighs any of the so-called benefits of half-by. I don't want to get to the day when manufacturers stop selling doubles (or even triples).
  • fat daddy
    fat daddy Posts: 2,605
    DaveP1 wrote:
    I don't want to get to the day when manufacturers stop selling doubles (or even triples).


    I find it funny that this worries people .... afraid that you wont be able to buy rim brakes any more, afraid of losing doubles.

    The road bike scene is glacially slow .... hell the dinosaurs evolved quicker than this .. you; I guarantee will be dead long before doubles die out.

    1x setups have boomed in popularity more recently due to having the technology to make a sensible weight and narrow cassette and chain allowing for a decent range.

    If you tried this back in the 90s, to get a decent spread across 11 gears, your cassette would be stuck out half way into the road and weigh 7kg

    now they can make 11 cogs fit in the space as 7 and light weight as well.


    1x setup plays perfectly on my commuter with the original compact I was always having to change the chainring gears multiple times in a ride it was hard work .... by getting rid off the 50/34 and sticking in a single 44, I now just need to run up and down the cassette .. its "de-stressed" the ride, I didnt even realize it was annoying until I tried it. And yes I have a 52/36 and a 50/34 on my other road bikes ... love them just as much .. but for short punchy aggressive rides, the 1x is king !!!!!
  • minnnt
    minnnt Posts: 102
    fat daddy wrote:
    1x setup plays perfectly on my commuter with the original compact I was always having to change the chainring gears multiple times in a ride it was hard work .... by getting rid off the 50/34 and sticking in a single 44, I now just need to run up and down the cassette .. its "de-stressed" the ride, I didnt even realize it was annoying until I tried it. And yes I have a 52/36 and a 50/34 on my other road bikes ... love them just as much .. but for short punchy aggressive rides, the 1x is king !!!!!

    This. It’s a really good setup for commuting and imo normal riding also. I won’t be getting the ‘summer bike’ out over the festive period just because it runs 2x10 as the so called ‘massive’ differences in between cogs just isn’t an issue. I’ve never pulled for a gear and thought wow my cadence has really took a hit, I wish I had another gear in between... :roll:

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