Yeah, not sure. When I was riding I kept "missing" parts of the stroke instead of engaging the freewheel pawls all of the way around.

Now that I think back at it, it may have been due to a stiff chain. I replaced the chain when I moved the chainrings around so perhaps that did it. The chain wasn't.... terrible. No rust, just old and the bike obviously sat in a garage for a decade or so. Good enough to put on a wal-mart bike when one needs a chain. Not good enough to put on a bike to be sold. (I had originally thought the freewheel was stiff, but it turned perfectly smoothly.)

I would consider moving the chainrings back around, but considering Froome's (and other's) eliptical chainrings are in the direction I "fixed" these to, I'll leave them be. Obviously shimano was wrong on this one. Not saying that what's good for the pros is good for the general public, but I think they'll be fine as is.