My 5yr old Rose is doing well, but there's some bubbling of paintwork starting, the proprietary seatclamp is held together by an M4 bolt and nylock nut, and most importantly my riding buddy just got a shiny new Orro... 🙄
Am eyeing up a Basso Venta, I can transfer the decent finishing kit and wheels from the Rose and use the bog standard OEM kit on the Basso to make the Rose a dedicated turbo bike which would be really handy.
Seems a fitting opportunity to try Campag, Chorus is apparently a bit lighter than Ultegra, and I can't think of anything necessarily bad I've ever heard about Campag kit. Plus shiny carbon cranks 😎 Any reason why not?
And on the subject of cranks, I've read some convincing arguments for going shorter, maybe 165mm instead of my current 170mm (am 6ft). Anyone tried a similar move?
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Anyone tried a similar move?
I've gone shorter on my cranks because of a hip issue. There's another school of thought (that I sign up to) that if you go this route you also need to ride correspondingly faster cadences and correspondingly lower gears.
you also need to ride correspondingly faster cadences and correspondingly lower gears.
I had read this too. Presumably you just need to go lower by a similar percentage to the change in crank length? So 170/165 * 28 = 28.8? If so that's another tick in the box for Campag, they do a 29 tooth cassette 😎
Under big efforts I often spin a higher cadence anyway, I don't know if that means I have a higher natural cadence anyway, or if I'm already maxxed out and can't go higher! Reason enough to keep training on the rollers I guess...