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Originally Posted by phishrabbi
The way Campy is doing their cassettes, there are as many 1t jumps as possible on the small end of the cassette, you're much more likely to need a specific cadence in that part of the cassette than you are when climbing.
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Ah yes, the Math. By pushing the idea of "as many 1t jumps as possible", Campy is hoping that people are bad at Math.
Having 1 tooth jumps sounds good, but the Math doesn't work out. That's because it isn't the the absolute value of the tooth differences between different sprockets that matters - what matters is the percent difference in teeth between different sprockets. For example, the gap between a 9 and a 10 tooth sprocket is only 1 tooth - but that's an 11% difference. That's the same as the 4 tooth difference between a 36 and a 40 tooth sprocket.
Others may be different, but I prefer equal size gaps between all the sprockets. By having many 1 tooth jumps at the small end of the cassette, Campagnolo ends up with larger jumps at the big end of the cassette. Campagnolo can't avoid that Math, either.