Some jerk stole my bike yesterday so today I'm starting the process of building the perfect bike, again.
I'm going to start with another trek 5200 and there's one optimization i didn't make on my last bike that i want to make now. i want to use campy shifters and derailleurs (because I think the wider shifter is more comfortable than the narrow shimano shifter).
However, because of my lousy knees, I need mountain bike gearing on my road bike in order to handle these Northern Californian mountains and yet avoid knee surgery (i'm not exaggerating). My last bike used a standard Ultegra Triple (30/42/52) with a Shimano 'XT as' cassette (11-34). That gave me all the range I needed.
This time around I'd like to use a cassette with less range. This will keep me within the capacity of the Campy long cage rear derailleur (12-29 max, capacity = 39, front difference = 23). And it should smooth out some of the minor shifting issues that I had when I used the XT as cassette with an Ultegra Triple.
In order to use a smaller cassette, and to maintain the range that I need, I'm going to need smaller chain rings. Campy's smallest chain ring would be the 30 on a standard road triple (30/39/53), that's still too big -- so I need to use the Shimano Mountain Bike chain ring. The ideal combination for me would be a Shimano LX Triple 22/32/44 (FC-M760) with a 12-27 cassette.
So my question is, does anyone have experience with combining campy shifters and derailleurs with a Shimano cassette and chainring?
I'm looking at these parts, and would like to know if anyone knows of any issues or successes with a combination similar to this:
Shimano FC-M760 chainring
Shimano 12-27 cassette (Ultegra 6500)
Campy triple front derailleur (Chorus or Centaur or Veloce)
Campy triple rear derailleur - long cage (Chorus or Centaur or Veloce)
Campy 9-Speed Ergopower shifters (Chorus or Veloce)
SRAM PC89R Chain
(The chainring is within the campy specs: max chainring=53 and max difference=23)
Thanks in advance for any insight.
phyllis
I'm going to start with another trek 5200 and there's one optimization i didn't make on my last bike that i want to make now. i want to use campy shifters and derailleurs (because I think the wider shifter is more comfortable than the narrow shimano shifter).
However, because of my lousy knees, I need mountain bike gearing on my road bike in order to handle these Northern Californian mountains and yet avoid knee surgery (i'm not exaggerating). My last bike used a standard Ultegra Triple (30/42/52) with a Shimano 'XT as' cassette (11-34). That gave me all the range I needed.
This time around I'd like to use a cassette with less range. This will keep me within the capacity of the Campy long cage rear derailleur (12-29 max, capacity = 39, front difference = 23). And it should smooth out some of the minor shifting issues that I had when I used the XT as cassette with an Ultegra Triple.
In order to use a smaller cassette, and to maintain the range that I need, I'm going to need smaller chain rings. Campy's smallest chain ring would be the 30 on a standard road triple (30/39/53), that's still too big -- so I need to use the Shimano Mountain Bike chain ring. The ideal combination for me would be a Shimano LX Triple 22/32/44 (FC-M760) with a 12-27 cassette.
So my question is, does anyone have experience with combining campy shifters and derailleurs with a Shimano cassette and chainring?
I'm looking at these parts, and would like to know if anyone knows of any issues or successes with a combination similar to this:
Shimano FC-M760 chainring
Shimano 12-27 cassette (Ultegra 6500)
Campy triple front derailleur (Chorus or Centaur or Veloce)
Campy triple rear derailleur - long cage (Chorus or Centaur or Veloce)
Campy 9-Speed Ergopower shifters (Chorus or Veloce)
SRAM PC89R Chain
(The chainring is within the campy specs: max chainring=53 and max difference=23)
Thanks in advance for any insight.
phyllis
