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Old 01-27-09 | 08:01 AM
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DaveSSS
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From: Loveland, CO

Bikes: Cervelo Rouvida x 2

If you really want to switch to a triple, do yourself a favor and invest enough to have a setup that works properly. I would ditch the escape shifters and get the 2009 Centaur or Veloce models with the new ultrashift mechanism. I would also get a crank with 53/39/30 or 53/39/28 chainrings. I used a 53/39/28 with a 12-25 (Campy 10 speed) for several years, riding the Colorado mountains and it worked quite well. I started using a triple before the popularity of outboard bearing cranks and chose FSA carbon cranks with ISIS BBs that were cheap on E-bay. I had no problems with them at all. I did that because Campy does not offer a 53/39/30. If I was building up a new triple crank bike today, I'd look at FSA or maybe an Ultegra triple crank, but not DA, due to the oddball bolt circle on the little ring. Some of the FSA outboard bearing models have had problems with the left crankarm coming loose, unless the proper loctite products are used on the spindle and fixing bolt. FSA has revised instructions with details.
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