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So my cheapo 1x AliExpress groupset turned up, to stick on a Bombtrack arise as, obvious as it may seem to everyone else, I hadn’t appreciated how useless singlespeed is on a “gravel” bike.
But the real news is that I hadn’t appreciated that a 42t cassette is the same size as a 42t chain ring. I mean, I “knew” but I didn’t really “know”
I fished the thing out the box and spent 2 minutes trying to work out what it was. For someone that’s only ever used 12-25 cassettes or 16t sprockets on a single speed, it’s comically massive