Originally Posted by
RollCNY
Canyoneagle, Ribble is doing 10% off right now, and it is cheaper to piece out than buy a full groupset with their Campy pricing. Total Cycling has a nice pool of UT cranks at decent prices, but all their other pieces are higher price than Ribble, even without the 10%.
If I did it again, I would get a UT crank. As thirdgenbird says, the puller is $60, but the crank adapter is another $60. I have not had the UT shifters, but have no complaints with my PT ones. I am crazy about my Centaur group, and avoided all the 11 speed chain tool BS.
I know the prices because I am contemplating sneaking another Centaur groupset, with a crank from Total Cycling, past the War Dept (my wife), just to have it for next winter's build, whatever that may be. The Nashbar retro was my fix for this winter, even though the bug seems to have not gone away.
haha. good stuff.
The current deal at Ribble is killing me because I probably won't have the budget to get the group until April. Who knows - I do have a possible influx of cash from some relatively big ticket items I am trying to sell, but there's no guarantee of if & when that will happen, and I have some other things tying up my budget at the moment.
Perhaps lady luck will smile on me with a couple of sales
Thirdgen - Id assume my BB shell will be fine - it's a standard old-school threaded Italian BB shell (I haven't measured it but assume it is the normal Ital 70mm). I'll need to do some more homework there. The only external BB I have experience with is the Truvativ format on my commuter. I'm unfamiliar with the bearings being mounted on the shaft/spindle itself.
So, if I understand correctly, the main advantage of UT is the elimination of special tools other than a long allen wrench (already have one) and a bearing puller, where the PT requires two special tools. Correct?
The only UT cranks these days are Chorus and Record/SR. I guess I need to do some research and become more familiar with my options (prior iterations of 11sp UT).
Here's my conundrum - I really like the new "mid-compact" 52/36 setup, so that pretty much means a new Chorus crank if UT is truly superior to the PT. That comes at a huge cost - more so than any tools I'd need to remove a PT.
Hmmm..... It just seems simpler to me to get a PT 52/36 and get a puller at some point later, unless there's s technical advantage to the UT other than removal. Plus, the PT is over 100g lighter than the UT - not that I'm really counting, but 130g is not insignificant.