I finally rode my Flyte build from the winter....


On my commute this morning (26 miles in). I was greatly dissapointed. Not sure yet if it is just the Campy that sucked, or the compact crank, or a combination of the 2 (my vote).

The thing is less tolerant of cross-chaining than my Shimano setups effectively dumping me out of at least 2 gear combinations that I would normally use. As a result I am all over the friggin cassette and chainrings looking for a gear. I find I'm running through both between each stop (this was 26 miles on a MUP ).

Current setup:
Crank - 2007 Campy Ultra Torque Centaur Compact Crank (50-34 I believe)
Cassette - 2006-2007 Campy Veloce 12-23 cassette
Shifters - 2007 Campy Veloce (QS front)
FD - 2007 Campy Centaur CT QS
RD - 2007 Campy Veloce Short Cage

At the very least I am thinking that I need to run a 12-25 on here (thought I did have a 12-25 until I checked for this post). Anyone know if I am going to run into trouble with the 12-25-compact-short cage RD (don't think I will...but you never know)?

EDIT: I was also skipping gears at starts. Don't know if it was my monster power stripping teeth off the cogs, crappy Campy, bad cross chaining at start, or frame flex. I voting for a combination of the last three....