You’re killing me, interwebz… I’m seeing more of the “the S-Works Crux is the one bike that does it all” videos on my YouTube feed. It’s enough to drive a fella a little nuts, I tell ya.
1x drivetrains aren’t all bad, of course. Adjusting a modern mechanical front derailleur so the chain doesn’t rub the cage or the cage rub the crank arm has become an exercise in patience, but it is possible, I’m here to tell you!
What a 1x lacks to a 2x is gear options, and those gear options are massively important when riding with the fast crowd.
Each tooth jump in a cassette cog is worth 5-rpm on the crank. Therefore, when you get a cog tooth jump of something like three teeth when you get to the hard gears, it feels like you’re always in the wrong gear to match your cadence to the speed the group is going.
Better people might be able to get used to that. I changed my chainrings to put the cadence gap in my 11/28 cassette where I wanted it; at 14 to 17-mph rather than at 18 to 21.
For that alone, the S-works Crux can’t be “the one”.
Now, put a 2x on that svelte beauty and that changes the conversation landscape immensely.
Fit Recovery 
I’m right with you here, Jim. Imagine the size of the gaps on my 11-51 10 speed cassette which I’ve just ridden. Bigger gaps than a 7 speed from 30 years ago and they dare to call it progress.
Andrew.
Yerp. Phhhht. 👍
I can’t believe the impracticality of that bike. All they have created, is a bike that’s not really good at any one thing.
(like a farmer, “jack of all trades and master of none”)
Yes!