Originally Posted by
curbtender
blastphemy here, but i just finished this CF triple with a 34 tooth sram cassette and xt derailuer, shifted with Ultegra. Makes local hills a bit more fun for this clyde.
Good heavens. I hope you really need a triple.
That's kind of like putting a tractor engine in a Porsche.
It's bizarre.
It's odd.
I like it.
That thing has got to climb like a nimble goat. It would be perfect for the Assault on Mt Mitchell.
My first conversion, a 1987 Centurion Lemans RS, from 2x7 Light Action to 3x7 RSX, 48/36/26 in front, Sante 12-28 in the rear. The owner is planning on touring it and doing Bike Virginia with it.
My second conversion, sorry for the bad photo, is a Sora 3x8 group with Bontrger Race crankset (Sorry E, it's all I had). It was my commuter bike, and is going back to double because a fellow BF guy needed that L triple shifter worse than I, and I think that frame was thinking of throwing me in a curve. Of course, now that I've seen a triple Kestrel, I don't feel so bad. 53/42/30 front, and 12-23 rear, I think.
If I do another one, it'll be a 9-sp 105 group, or Ultegra if I can find the parts. It won't be an Ironman. I think it really messed up my mojo for a while.