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Originally Posted by shoota
I've read and re-read all your comments on this page and I'm not convinced you are correct about most of it. Maybe you're correct "on paper" but in real life scenario I'm not sure. I think the inefficiencies everyone is talking about are minuscule. I seriously doubt a pro team would accept a system that instantly puts them at a disadvantage. They go to many great lengths to squeeze out every drop of marginal gains for that.
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I can't really argue with this - the additional losses are quite small, and perhaps of no great concern to most cyclists. But on other hand, SRAM has gone to great lengths to re-work the drivetrain for no particular gain, either. Every design change results in compromise between positives and negatives. If the positives outweigh the negatives, then a change may be worth making. In this case, I don't see how the positives outweigh the negatives, so why change things?