The time had come, yet again, to replace the drivetrain on my Wednesday. I’ve been one-by on my all-mountain bike a few years now, and messed with a two chainring (manually shifted on the rare occasions I needed to) setup on the bikepacker last. Decided to go whole-hog this year and do a proper one-by setup.
Naturally, one of the biggest concerns while bikepacking is the broad range of gearing needed to travel uphill and down, paved, gravel, and singletrack. Easy enough with a front derailleur, but for those of us who what to move on and get rid of that ‘ol thing there’s finally viable options to do so. Aaaaaaand I don’t mean SRAM Eagle. Sure, it’s awesome, but no way in hell can I ever afford that setup. So I went in search of something that would do the job, but not break the bank…
And after many, many, (many) hours of homework I think I managed to put something together. I’m the king of mismatching, so I figured I might as well stay consistent.