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chiroshi
@skipper
It is better to have a front derailleur and double chainring for a 2 x setup in almost all cases, allowing for greater flexibility and range in the gear choices vis-à-vis varying terrain except when you don’t want that in which case you should go right there on ahead and use a single chainring with a low number of teeth and see how you get on with it because as Schopenhauer noted, true happiness is sadly an illusion but that does not per-se discount the noble aim of reducing misery nor by extension, adopting a phenomenological perspective to gearing choice.