The Emonda has a monster 50/34 crank. I am not a strong enough rider, so I basically never used the big chainring. The bike is basically a 1X for me. I am thinking if I switch to the 46/30, it would be more practical: I'd use the full range of gears AND I'd get more climbing gears. is there any reason not to do this if I truly will never be strong enough to use the 50?
Edit: the cassette is 11 a 34 12 speed
my current team felt awful to use because they are all slow leveler that pay off in the endgame: snorlax, lapras, exeggutor, rhydon, dragonair, arcanine. (I have access to both leaf green and fire red.)
I have an aesthetic philosophy about a team I want to follow:
no redundant typings - so no sanslash AND geodude (both ground)
I like to hit things super effective - no more snorlax!
move should be STAB - so no thunderbolt or icebeam on nidoking.
I am sick of slow levelers, so only medium fast levelers allowed
pokemon that feel good to use immediatelly, not 30 to 50 levels later
ideally I'd also like mostly early game pokemon unless there is a smooth mid or late game transition that is a meaningful improvement like going from fearrow to dodrio. in this run I tried to switch from pikachu to jolteon at one point only to spend way too much time and money trying to buy thunderbolt since jolteon starts with no electric attacks
mons should not have trash stats
also no starters or legendaries
edit: ok chat, this is what I came up with, lmk if I have any glaring coverage holes:
I have an emonda and an FX. I always enjoy the faster road bike when it makes sense, but if the roads aren't perfectly smooth or there are a bunch of gravel and dirt trails maybe the hybrid makes more sense.
I put tufo thundero tires on my fx 3 to differentiate it more from my emonda.
Trek says 40 i the max limit but these 44mm fit great. That said, they measure at 42mm with my calipers so YMMV.
Excited to try them out!
My strategy was to deploy like 80 portals, maintain them, and let them naturally get whittled down. Funny enough, it was my simple home portal that ended up being my guardian, so i guess there was no need to overthink it.
I blew through more than 500 level 8 power cubes going for the onyx recharger and charging over 300 portals. Now i’ve cut back to about 80 but i constantly have to grind for cubes. Is there a happy middle ground? There are a few parks around me i’d like to eventually turn into farms if i can ever get other ENL to come out…
I always see a group of riders around the ymca that look pretty serious, but today i saw a group that was most definitely not serious cyclists. Is there a facebook group or discord? I’d like to join a peloton.
After i got the tx i ended up getting and emonda so to make it less redundant i want to put some gravel tires on it. I’m looking st the tufo thunderos right now. I’d like to go 44mm and hear these can usually fit up to a 45 comfortably but trek says 40mm max so i wanted to check with you guys. What has your experience been?
I have these two dudes that put four aegis shields on every portal so i spend AT LEAST like 5 ultra strikes per portal. I have like 500 level 8 xmp’s and i’m down to 3 ultra strikes.
Am i doing something wrong?!
Does this sub prefer intel pics or drone pics? I put both since i wasn’t sure. Sorry for all the blue, field is too big for me to go destroy today. And doesn’t have a single anchor like mine.
School is almost out for summer and I want to take the kids to a bunch of new parks. what are your top 10 parks in northwest indiana?!
I was going to wet fast through it, but i forgot my electrolytes so decided to dry fast instead. I hope i get focus and clarity instead of headaches and brain fog. Last i ate and drank was yesterday (Saturday) at 3pm. I wont eat today or tomorrow. I’ll break my fast Tuesday evening. I’ll report back at the end of each day!
The wife and I want to spend a day out there exploring it. what are some fun, date type things to do out there besides the beach?