Gear Versatility

For a long time, Campagnolo stuck to 11-29t cassettes, but it too now offers rear shifting that goes out to 11-34t

This is no understatement – your choice of gearing and its efficiency can make or break your ride. That’s why it’s good news that the range and quality of groupsets on the market is better than ever, with options to suit your experience, goal event and fitness. Here’s how to boost your performance by charting the evolution of your ‘gruppo’…

Easier and faster

ook back 20 years and the standard set-up on a bike harbouring sporting pretensions would be a ‘standard double’ chainset with 53/39-tooth (t) chainrings paired with an 11-25t cassette. That was pretty much the same gearing used by the pros, which, for an amateur, made for an interesting time once the road tilted up. In short, unless you packed an uphill punch, you’d struggle through lack