Originally Posted by
HillRider
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As to available Shimano road triples, if you are going to stock up, find a couple of NOS FC-5703 cranks. Yeah, they are "only" 105 but they have a 130/74 BCD which allows down to a 24T granny ring. The FC-6703 uses a "tripilizer middle ring with a 92 mm BCD that limits you to a 30T granny.
I picked a shimano 105 triple up last year precisely for this reason.