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Yeah I just being flippant with the 'maybe'
I've not actually ridden a 12 speed set up yet so cant really say much about it.
Do the 12 speed axs cassettes offer smaller jumps between each cog?Edit - just googled and see that it does indeed offer closer ratios. lots of 1t jumps.
Thats something that I'd like and obviously a lot of other folk would.Pitty I bought 11 speed etap on sale just before axs came out
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Do the 12 speed axs cassettes offer smaller jumps between each cog?
Like you said, more 1T jumps, and because the biggest cog on the cassette doesn't have to be as big as with bigger chainrings, you also get smaller jumps compared to the cassettes you'd previously had to run to achieve the same ratios.
Tijs
Not maybe, definitely. It's a simple matter of ratios.
With 12-speed AXS 48/35 x 10-33, you get a higher hard gear than 52x11, and a lower easy gear than 34x32, 32x30 and 30x28, with small cassette jumps.
If you don't need the equivalent of a 52x11 top gear (who does besides pros), you can go for smaller chainrings to get a lower easy gear if you keep the same cassette, or get a smaller range cassette and decrease the cassette jumps even more.
Only thing is you need a 'special' hub to accommodate the 10t cassette cog.