Seeking wisdom of the masses. I am currently using a 52/36 crank set with 12-28 cassette, ratios below. Green are the ones I use 99% of the time, yellow I could stand do lose, and white get used roughly never. The bold ratios are the ones around my average race speed around my average race rpm. I basically use the small ring as a bailout, hence the 24% jump from 52-23 to 36-21. On rare occasion I drop it to 36-19, but rarely. At that point I'm climbing slowly enough to sit up and spin up the hills anyway.
Now I am looking to go 1x with 44t and 11-32. In my opinion (correct me if I'm wrong), it would be ideal to have small steps in the range that I use the most and have bigger steps in my bailout gears (maybe I shouldn't be riding that way). In that regards, Rotor UNO or Edco > SRAM Red > Ultegra. Ultegra starts making 2 tooth jumps the earliest and Rotor the latest. I acknowledge that on a flat course I might spend almost all my time around 3.4:1 gearing while on a hilly course I might spend most of my time at the ends of the cassette, but aside from Lanzarote and Nice, the former has been more representative of gearing usage.
Rotor and Red cost $250+ for the cassette so I inquired in a custom Miche cassette with someone who builds them. He said the Rotor 11-32 is made for their derailleur and the gearing ramp won't work well with my Shimano derailleur. Also, he made a comment that Rotor cassettes break.
Here go my questions:
1. Do the Rotor cassettes break? I haven't found any feedback on them.
2. Any feedback on the Edco cassette? I've only found a couple of positive reviews on ST and one ST poster who said he heard they shift poorly.
3. Would shifting be compromised with a DA9100 derailleur using any of these cassettes?
4. Which gearing ramp would you recommend as a do-it-all cassette, knowing that 3.4:1 gearing is where my average sits?
Thanks!
Now I am looking to go 1x with 44t and 11-32. In my opinion (correct me if I'm wrong), it would be ideal to have small steps in the range that I use the most and have bigger steps in my bailout gears (maybe I shouldn't be riding that way). In that regards, Rotor UNO or Edco > SRAM Red > Ultegra. Ultegra starts making 2 tooth jumps the earliest and Rotor the latest. I acknowledge that on a flat course I might spend almost all my time around 3.4:1 gearing while on a hilly course I might spend most of my time at the ends of the cassette, but aside from Lanzarote and Nice, the former has been more representative of gearing usage.
Rotor and Red cost $250+ for the cassette so I inquired in a custom Miche cassette with someone who builds them. He said the Rotor 11-32 is made for their derailleur and the gearing ramp won't work well with my Shimano derailleur. Also, he made a comment that Rotor cassettes break.
Here go my questions:
1. Do the Rotor cassettes break? I haven't found any feedback on them.
2. Any feedback on the Edco cassette? I've only found a couple of positive reviews on ST and one ST poster who said he heard they shift poorly.
3. Would shifting be compromised with a DA9100 derailleur using any of these cassettes?
4. Which gearing ramp would you recommend as a do-it-all cassette, knowing that 3.4:1 gearing is where my average sits?
Thanks!