Yes but...if you don't need a 53t which I would maintain few recreational cyclists do and hence the popularity of compacts and triples...especially with 11t rear cassettes out there...then I believe best to opt for a compact and change out the less expensive unpinned, inner chainring to suit one's terrain. The other perhaps even bigger factor is you are seriously limited on minimum number of teeth with a 135mm BCD and therefore can't go small if you need to climb a bit more.