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dancing james
@mashton
Your wallet will also be grateful. Skidding around like a moron on 48x16 will eat through your tyre in the shortest possible time.
If you don't know why this is, Google "skid patches" and read Sheldon on it.
48x18 is not much better. Only three patches.
Getting a 17t cog sounds like a fairly good investment