Tree-climbing gear for my gravel bike?

[BumbleBeeDave]

That Road Link is a Wolf Tooth product? Keeping the 31-48 crank ans just being able to go down to 42 sounds ideal. What's the cassette? SRAM? Shimano?

Originally Posted by bikinchris

Scratch all of that. Get a Road Link and put a cassette with a 42 tooth low gear and be done with it.

[fa63]

Both SRAM and Shimano make 11-42 11-spd cassettes for mountain bike applications. You will need to adjust the spacer on your freehub to fit the MTB cassette on a road freehub properly. Something like the Shimano SLX CS-M7000 should shift nicely and doesn't cost an arm and a leg in case the experiment doesn't work out.

https://www.jensonusa.com/Shimano-SLX-CS-M7000-Cassette

Originally Posted by BumbleBeeDave

That Road Link is a Wolf Tooth product? Keeping the 31-48 crank ans just being able to go down to 42 sounds ideal. What's the cassette? SRAM? Shimano?

[BumbleBeeDave]

At $72 that works for me to experiment with. I've seen some of those MTB dinner plate cassettes at some insane prices.

Originally Posted by fa63

Both SRAM and Shimano make 11-42 11-spd cassettes for mountain bike applications. You will need to adjust the spacer on your freehub to fit the MTB cassette on a road freehub properly. Something like the Shimano SLX CS-M7000 should shift nicely and doesn't cost an arm and a leg in case the experiment doesn't work out.

https://www.jensonusa.com/Shimano-SLX-CS-M7000-Cassette