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At the end of the day I am probably a bit like you.... I'll do what the fuck I want with my bikes. BUT if there is one thing that this site has taught me is that the cycling orthodoxy tends to be the cycling orthodoxy for a good reason. The times when I have done things different and ignored the cycling ordothoxy I have usually ended up realising that I was wrong.

Kinda, such set-up weren't uncommon back in the 50's (give or take) especially in randonneur/brevet, so I wasn't trying to be different, just following an old trend that worked well at the time before triple become popular (and now double is coming back).

I only become interested in having such set-up after using a triple during a long ride, I find myself shifting back and forth from the large and middle chainring, and drop to the granny for hard ascent (Yorkshire), I realised the best course of action is to simply find the perfect large chainring, and keep the granny for hard ascent.

example of a 1950's bike with similar chainset (it even got threadless stem);