Road Cycling

[Martynt74]

Yeah. Super easy.

Should be loads of YouTube videos too you can watch to see before you start.

Might need to adjust the chain depending on how much slack you’ve got.

 

[Junglist]

Yeah. Super easy.

Should be loads of YouTube videos too you can watch to see before you start.

Might need to adjust the chain depending on how much slack you’ve got.

Yeah I expect I’d need to remove a few links. I’ll do that for the summer. I don’t think it will make a huge difference but in my mind it would make me faster up hills. Not sure if the math is mathing though

 

[Martynt74]

Yeah better to go smaller for the chain. I swapped my mtb chainring and needed a new longer chain which was annoying as it was pretty new otherwise.

 

[fez]

Is it fairly straight forward swapping a chain set?

Quite tempted to switch from 52/36 to 50/34 because I find myself looking for an extra gear when I’m in 36/30 and I doubt I’d miss 52/11 all that much either.

the painful reality is I’m just not strong enough for my gearing lol

I did the same last year. I simply found myself in the small ring at the front far too often and even then I found that I couldn’t find quite the right gear often. 50/34 is perfect for me.

I took off my big boy pants and I’m much happier for it.