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I'm back on my bike after having my knee rebuilt but can't pedal standing up yet (moving my foot from like 11 to 1 on the crank doesn't work). I think it's because I can't sit in a chair and raise my foot by straightening my leg. I had put my 11-32 on when I was overly confident about my riding strength but put the 14-34 on after 100+ miles last week.
It's shifting better. It turns out Chorus can clear a 34 without a Road Link, so that helps. Also I realized that I hadn't shortened my chain from when I went from a double to a single chainring.
Also, now my Chorus has Hope jockey wheels with sealed bearings.
It would occasionally click when I was in the 3rd or 4th cog from the top, right around where it goes from road to mountain spacing, but nothing severe. My leg is getting stronger so I merged the cassettes back to their original forms a week ago.
I probably put 1300 miles on my bike in that configuration. There's not a huge difference in gears when you go 14-15-16-17-18. At first this was great because I could really fine tune my cadence but I've gained like 3 cm of right quad size since getting back on my bike and found myself shifting at least 2 gears at a time, sometimes 3. Also I wanted to pedal downhill again.
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