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Originally Posted by nickl
Agree, I had a similar experience. Campagnolo offering Ekar as 1x only is a seriously flawed strategy, especially considering how well their compact and subcompact doubles work. Don’t suggest Chorus or their other groups as alternatives, since that’s not how they’re designed or marketed.
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Are you sure?
It’s not listed as a gravel group, but I recall a lot of the builds they posted on social media being on “all road” bikes. They also do not offer a standard crankset and offer a subcompact.
Regardless of how it’s listed on their site or marketed, it performs very well off-road. Most of the long term reviews that I have read were in gravel bike applications and that’s how I’ve been using it. Zero complaints so far. No, it doesn’t have a clutch but if my riding required a clutch, then the merits of 1x are probably also warranted.
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Originally Posted by Dave
Chorus only lacks a clutched RD cage to be gravel worthy, but the need for a clutch depends on how rough your gravel is.
A 32/34 is under 1/1 and reasonably low.
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Agreed.