50/34 or 50/36 is compact. What size is your small ring? There's a question you can only ask on bikeforums

I think 53/39 is the standard (or most commonly used) two ring combo these days. Compacts are as cuzzy vette says.

I'm thinking 50/36 up front and a straight block on the back might be the hot setup.

Anyone got any opinions on that?

from the only in the USA files.....

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.ph...52917#poststop

no eye dear. im sure its a 39 but ill have to go home and look now..... no wonder the bike climbs so well .....

not again. I only read the thread title before closing it.

44 inner ring for Paris-Roubaix.

compact cranks are for ******* ! HDT, I'd be surprised if you had anything but a 53/39 std.

Hip-Hip Hooray :o

nope :( its a 50 on the front. oh the shame. :o

Rumour has it Landis has installed a triple for tonight!

LOL !!!

HDT - they sold you a compact crank and never told you ? What kinda bike is it again? Take it back and demand a REAL crankset !!!

And you thought you were climbing like the chicken.....:p

Dare you to go post that over in the Tdf forum. :lol:

Dun!

That's what I want to know. They've got half the team that do fark all. Horner might carry a bottle for cadel at the base of the first climb then go ride out the back with robbie. Gert might lead out in the right suburb one time out of 5. At least they've done something. What's with the rest of the clowns in that team. All the seppos are crying in their milk about Phonak not helping their boy and Discovery letting Hincappie down, but what about Cadel? He's getting no help at all and he's still hanging tough. Still think he'll finish with Robbie and the rest of the team tomorrow though. :(

Sweet. Hopefully the seppos are still all emo and you get a nibble. ;)

it never came up! i was a cycling newbie at the time but the bike should have been sold to me as stock. god knows they didnt help me out any with anything else on it esp fitup. Damn you Clarence street for making me a compact girly man. no wonder the bloody thing spins out so fast :( :( :(

oh well, i guess thats just another reason to spend some more hard earned on PBK to get me a new Ultegra job.... can i jsut change the chainrings? or does the whole crank have to be done?

just looked it up on RBR and its supposed to have 52 - 39..... not happy clarence street,not happy by half.

LOL

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HDTV to make up for the shame I want to see a normal crank and a 11-21 cassette!

I can't remember who it was, but I think one of the winners in the Pyrenees this Tour was quoted on cyclingnews.com as saying he was glad he told his mechanic to fit a compact crankset for the days stage.

(But if Tiger is correct about cyclingnews.com then maybe he was paid to say that:) )

Davis Phinney!

D. Phinney
LBL in '88

Don't know who that is but I'm pretty sure Der Kaiser pulled the same move just before last year's Tour:lol:

ironic.....the Belgian Isoglass team is sponsored by a company that manufactures........safety glass.