>>1233505I'm with you for most of this, but:
>weight>10-50 weights way more than a 11-28, 11-25 or even a straight blockThere's no world in which you'd be comparing a 1x drivetrain with a 10-50 to a 2x with an 11-28. To match the gear range of 1x 10-50, you'd need a ___50/25___ double with that 11-28 cassette.
How about a more reasonable comparison.
A 44 x 10-42 has about the same range as a 50/34 x 11-32. That cassette doesn't weigh a whole lot more, and you forgot to mention that 1x doesn't just drop the small ring and front mech: we shed a shifter, a cable, a housing run... it all adds up.
1x is straight up lighter. Not by a lot, not by enough to really matter, but if you try to argue this point you're delusional.
>commuter>better off with 3xThere's no way in hell I'd ever suggest a 3x for the "average commuter". The average commuter is an idiot; honestly 1x makes a lot of sense for them. No way to fuck up your shift patterns and ride crosschained all the time because you don't know any better.
Hell - I'm a pretty serious cyclist, I still rock a triple on the two bikes I ride the most, and my commuter is a 1x8. It's 34 x 11-28, I can climb pretty much anything with the low gear and I don't care enough about going f a s t with this bike to need a higher gear. I still outpace pretty much everyone actually commuting; the only people who pass me in the morning are the dudes in full kit out for a pre-work hammerfest.
>Only in MTB it has a legitimate point on some full-suspension bikesMy hardtail MTB is also 1x, because it's simply more fun. Try it sometime. I thought it was dumb for a long time, then I tried it and realized how much of my mind was occupied thinking about what gear I was in, if I was in danger of being crosschained, if I should dump a ring for the hill ahead, etc.
