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Howard
Will I suffer stupidly in the Alps on 52/36 11x28? This is with the 5800 group. I'd buy a new cassette but annoyingly I have a short cage mech so would need another one of them too.
I'm fairly fit but by no means an animal. I have found myself on 36/28 on the steeper Surrey climbs, for example. I've been told that I'll be fine, but the fact that it was 43 degrees on the Alpe during the Marmotte is making me nervous...