![]() ![]() One more item to set the stage: Adding or subtracting a tooth from the cassette makes a bigger difference in your overall gearing than adding or subtracting a tooth from your chainring. If you want to go super slow (or up steep hills), you want a SMALL ring up front and a very BIG cog in back. In other words – if you want to go super fast, you want a BIG ring up front and a very SMALL cog in back. The front chainrings work in the opposite manner of the rear cassette – more teeth means taller gearing. Yes, there were a few other options, but these were by far the most common.įor the most part, we all had big chainrings up front – 53/39. If you were doing flat races, you used an 11-23. The smaller the cog, the taller your gearing (i.e. ![]() The smallest cog size out back had 11 or 12 teeth. When I started to get serious about cycling, high-end road bikes had 9 gears in the rear cassette cluster (say, from Ultegra-level and up). ![]()
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