Quote Originally Posted by Meg McKilty View Post
I quite liked having three, but always felt the middle one did me no good.
Maybe you just didn't have the right gear ratios (the chainrings were too close to each other in size), because most people with triples spend most of their time in the middle ring. The exception would be if your terrain is VERY steep!


PS It took me probably a couple of weeks with brifters before I stopped reaching for my down tube every time I wanted to shift. But then I'm getting to the age where the experts say I should be having difficulty adapting. Once I figured out where they were, I just had to keep telling myself, "small paddle, smaller cog; big lever, bigger cog."