>>1504578Prowadzę intelektualne dyskusje na tematy rowerowe z perspektywy którą rzadko się porusza na innych forach.
>>1504464That is one pretty bike.
>>1504121>Luddites: if 2x and 3x systems are so good why the fuck does no one use them?Noone uses them because 90% of bikes these days don't have provisions for an FD. But to answer your question. It is a superposition of:
- cycling culture is full of retro grouches and myth peddlers
- which led to triple living more then it should
- which led to doubles being adopted way too late
Realistically - once cassette grew to 11-30-ish range, triple becomes superfluous. It always was a workaround for having just 13-ish of thereabouts as the small cog on the screw-on freewheel.
There is also the other part of cycling culture - crying about "duplicate ratios", as if that was a problem. Which, of course, caused people to adopt weird shifting patterns which made the difficult job of the FD more apparent.
Only once in the history of MTB triple was done well - that was the shimano FC-CT91 38/32/24 crank. However, just when cycling became comfortable with a double - SRAM struck gold with XX1, and it turned out that normies loooooove not thinking about anything and it does not matter that for 90% of them their 10-50 cassette is just an expensive flywheel, and they ride it like a 7 speed 11-28.
Pic: My 1x12 done right. 11-34 cassette with a 34T cog hits the central ratio of this bike, considering its use case ( my local trails, dirt jumps, pretending I'm still young ). Entire stack is used all the time. If this was a 10-50, then everything north of 32 would $300 of unused.
