I found my next love, a Cannondale Synapse Sport. I was having drive train trouble on this mornings ride (I keep wearing mine out for some reason ) So I stopped in at Light Street for some new parts and it turns out Penny just got back from an advanced bike fitting class, so the short end of all this is I found out that most bike geometries put my rear end too far back (I guess my knees are in the wrong place.) So swapping out the set back seat post with one that was centered made a big difference and essentially is getting me the "feel" that I wanted with the longer cranks.

So back to my "old" bike, Penny did not have any 53 teeth big rings for my bike so back down to a 52. I had to drop the FD down a bit for the smaller ring and what was a contentious SOB FD was back to being a normal bike part, put where it looks like it goes, adjust and the thing works. I have no idea why just one more tooth gives this thing such fits but anyway I am done with trying to push that a bit more.