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Old 05-11-14, 01:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Biker395
That gear calculator is cool.

I have my gripes about compact doubles, but fiddling around with it, I think I'd be happy with this odd combination: 49/36 with a 33/11 (33, 29, 26, 23, 20, 18, 16, 14, 13, 12, 11)

Good luck finding that combo though.
Yeah I was lucky to be using that Sugino 110 bc retro styled crank with a FW because I could get Sugino MTB rings for it. Campagnaglo made some thinner rings for the 110 bc cranks but most of them have one offset bolt hole and won't fit anything else. I did find some old Campy NOS rings for it, in what I wanted, that are 110 all around and will just save them it for whatever.

Finding non standard rings for the other brands of compacts is something I haven't looked into but I imagine lots of people have crosschain issues with the 50/34 setup on those......They really should make 'em.

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