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Originally Posted by 11.4

Not trying to derail your approach, but the issue isn't whether you need a 50/11, as much as whether you like riding a 50 x 13,14,15,16,17,18,19,21 etc. Those are the gears that determine whether a 50 is right for you. Similarly, your 34 may be used mostly with your 12, 13, 14, and so on.

I've ridden a couple bikes with the Wickwerks adapter. On both it barely works with a 44 front ring. It does throw in a little bit of flexibility into the shifting system, not enough to really feel it with manual shifting but definitely with Di2.

Just curious, what does 'barely works' here mean? meaning it puts the FD barely too low, barely too high?