Five or six is plenty, nine is gratuitous hardware and multiple redundancy." I don't believe they are useful, necessary, or any good for the design of the rear wheel. The range of gears hasn't changed much in the last 50 years, only the number of gears in that range. I ride a gear that's about right and leave it at that.
I'm not preoccupied with always being in the right gear or following some unwritten precepts on cadence and the like. "I use down tube shifters (seldom) and use a 6-speed freewheel because 5-speeds are dead. How many duplicates are there in these 10 and 11-speed setups? In any case, the efficiency is debatable.įrom that point, I'm reminded of this quote from Jobst Brandt - and keep in mind, this was from the time that 9-speeds were the "state of the art": One can get such ratio duplication with 5 and 6-speed drivetrains. I don't know if this person uses a gear ratio calculator or not, but chances are, there's a fair amount of gear ratio duplication - that is, some of those chainring-to-cog combinations give actual gear ratios that are so close as to be indistinguishable from one another. Yes, adding one extra cog gives more gear ratios ( two more, to be exact, assuming we're using a double-ring crank). "I've been riding both 11-speed Campagnolo and 10-speed SRAM for several years now, and I switch between the two often enough to be able to tell you there are some definite differences between 10 and 11-speed drivetrains." He goes on to say, "Generally, adding an extra cog means you have more gear ratios to choose from which can make your riding more efficient." Really?
Needless to say, but the reviewer at Performance is a fan of 11.
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