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Mine's 1×10 with 40T ring and 11-36 cassette. It's too high for loaded bikepacking and too low for club runs, but OK for everything else, as long as you can handle the slightly gappy gears. If you're used to riding fixed then you'll probably be just fine, as you're used to being in the wrong gear all the time anyway.
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as long as you can handle the slightly gappy gears.
That's why I'm thinking of keeping the 48/32 chainset, as the 48t with 11-34 is a perfect 1x10 for road riding, and I got the 32t for off road.
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Thanks - the fixie thing is part of why I’m thinking 1x could work. How much of a pain is it swapping out the big ring for different kinds of riding? I could envisage running 44 up front but swapping for something smaller to ride loaded, but taking links out is a fiddly ball ache...
edscoble
h2o
For a gravelpacking bike that’ll also be a audax/club run road bike, would the hive mind go 1x with the long rear mech, or 2x with a long rear mech? I don’t have enough room for a third bike, so I’m looking to build something that’ll replace my audax bike but that can handle reasonably bad terrain. The alternative is to lose my fixie but I like it too much for commuting/training.