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Cat Dailey
Guest
For those of you who are interested in how the Campy Record Compact with
compact front derailleur works:
I had an FSA bottom bracket and FSA compact crank with regular Record front
derailleur. As many others here experienced, the chain would often drop off
to the inside, despite many, many adjustments. Also, I could not use the
34-23 combination without having bad chainrub. FSA told me that my short
chainstays were to blame for the crappy chainline and that they didn't have
a solution.
I put on the new Record compact crank (34-50), bottom bracket, and compact
specific front derailleur. VOILA! Great chainline, perfect shifting across
all the gears without chainrub anywhere (even cross-chained), and I CANNOT
get the darned chain to fall off (I am curious to know if you can pick it
back up with the front derailleur, since I couldn't with the FSA setup...I'd
have to get off of the bike to do it).
While I think the FSA carbon crank is more aesthetically pleasing than the
Record one, I just had to have better performance.
Cat
who is thrilled that it was SIXTY DEGREES near Philly today after having
ridden tow or three times in the twenties in the last week ;>
compact front derailleur works:
I had an FSA bottom bracket and FSA compact crank with regular Record front
derailleur. As many others here experienced, the chain would often drop off
to the inside, despite many, many adjustments. Also, I could not use the
34-23 combination without having bad chainrub. FSA told me that my short
chainstays were to blame for the crappy chainline and that they didn't have
a solution.
I put on the new Record compact crank (34-50), bottom bracket, and compact
specific front derailleur. VOILA! Great chainline, perfect shifting across
all the gears without chainrub anywhere (even cross-chained), and I CANNOT
get the darned chain to fall off (I am curious to know if you can pick it
back up with the front derailleur, since I couldn't with the FSA setup...I'd
have to get off of the bike to do it).
While I think the FSA carbon crank is more aesthetically pleasing than the
Record one, I just had to have better performance.
Cat
who is thrilled that it was SIXTY DEGREES near Philly today after having
ridden tow or three times in the twenties in the last week ;>