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Campy Compact Report
For those of you who are interested in how the Campy Record Compact with
compact front derailleur works: I had an FSA bottom bracket and FSA compact crank with regular Record front derailleur. As many others here experienced, the chain would often drop off to the inside, despite many, many adjustments. Also, I could not use the 34-23 combination without having bad chainrub. FSA told me that my short chainstays were to blame for the crappy chainline and that they didn't have a solution. I put on the new Record compact crank (34-50), bottom bracket, and compact specific front derailleur. VOILA! Great chainline, perfect shifting across all the gears without chainrub anywhere (even cross-chained), and I CANNOT get the darned chain to fall off (I am curious to know if you can pick it back up with the front derailleur, since I couldn't with the FSA setup...I'd have to get off of the bike to do it). While I think the FSA carbon crank is more aesthetically pleasing than the Record one, I just had to have better performance. Cat who is thrilled that it was SIXTY DEGREES near Philly today after having ridden tow or three times in the twenties in the last week ; |
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On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 20:51:01 -0500, "Cat Dailey"
wrote: I put on the new Record compact crank (34-50), bottom bracket, and compact specific front derailleur. VOILA! Great chainline, perfect shifting across all the gears without chainrub anywhere (even cross-chained), and I CANNOT get the darned chain to fall off (I am curious to know if you can pick it back up with the front derailleur, since I couldn't with the FSA setup...I'd have to get off of the bike to do it). I'd like to guess that if you took the Campy 50t ring and put it on the FSA cranks, that the chain would not drop either. I don't think that the front derailleur would pick up the dropped chain either. That's easy enough to test. I'm guessing that the placement and length of the shift pins on the FSA ring are the culprit in both the ring being rubbed when crossed with the small ring and hanging onto the chain for a fraction of a second too long. |
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"Paul Kopit" wrote in message ... On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 20:51:01 -0500, "Cat Dailey" wrote: I put on the new Record compact crank (34-50), bottom bracket, and compact specific front derailleur. VOILA! Great chainline, perfect shifting across all the gears without chainrub anywhere (even cross-chained), and I CANNOT get the darned chain to fall off (I am curious to know if you can pick it back up with the front derailleur, since I couldn't with the FSA setup...I'd have to get off of the bike to do it). I'd like to guess that if you took the Campy 50t ring and put it on the FSA cranks, that the chain would not drop either. I don't think that the front derailleur would pick up the dropped chain either. That's easy enough to test. I'm guessing that the placement and length of the shift pins on the FSA ring are the culprit in both the ring being rubbed when crossed with the small ring and hanging onto the chain for a fraction of a second too long. Nope, it was the chainline. FSA acknowledged as much and said it was "a problem" with short chainstay bikes like mine. For some reason, the drive side crank sits too far away from the bb. Cat |
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Cat Dailey wrote:
For those of you who are interested in how the Campy Record Compact with compact front derailleur works: I had an FSA bottom bracket and FSA compact crank with regular Record front derailleur. As many others here experienced, the chain would often drop off to the inside, despite many, many adjustments. Also, I could not use the 34-23 combination without having bad chainrub. FSA told me that my short chainstays were to blame for the crappy chainline and that they didn't have a solution. I put on the new Record compact crank (34-50), bottom bracket, and compact specific front derailleur. VOILA! Great chainline, perfect shifting across all the gears without chainrub anywhere (even cross-chained), and I CANNOT get the darned chain to fall off (I am curious to know if you can pick it back up with the front derailleur, since I couldn't with the FSA setup...I'd have to get off of the bike to do it). While I think the FSA carbon crank is more aesthetically pleasing than the Record one, I just had to have better performance. I wonder if there's a difference in chainline between these two setups. Have you measured it? Perhaps the FSA would have worked better with a different BB, giving the same chainline as the Campy. Matt O. |
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"Matt O'Toole" wrote in message ... Cat Dailey wrote: For those of you who are interested in how the Campy Record Compact with compact front derailleur works: I had an FSA bottom bracket and FSA compact crank with regular Record front derailleur. As many others here experienced, the chain would often drop off to the inside, despite many, many adjustments. Also, I could not use the 34-23 combination without having bad chainrub. FSA told me that my short chainstays were to blame for the crappy chainline and that they didn't have a solution. I put on the new Record compact crank (34-50), bottom bracket, and compact specific front derailleur. VOILA! Great chainline, perfect shifting across all the gears without chainrub anywhere (even cross-chained), and I CANNOT get the darned chain to fall off (I am curious to know if you can pick it back up with the front derailleur, since I couldn't with the FSA setup...I'd have to get off of the bike to do it). While I think the FSA carbon crank is more aesthetically pleasing than the Record one, I just had to have better performance. I wonder if there's a difference in chainline between these two setups. Have you measured it? Perhaps the FSA would have worked better with a different BB, giving the same chainline as the Campy. Matt O. Maybe, but I used the FSA bb that was supposed to go with the FSA crank. Some people have suggested that the chainline is supposed to be identical, but even I could see that the drive side crank sat further away from the frame on the FSA cranks than the campy cranks. Cat |
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Cat Dailey wrote:
Maybe, but I used the FSA bb that was supposed to go with the FSA crank. Some people have suggested that the chainline is supposed to be identical, but even I could see that the drive side crank sat further away from the frame on the FSA cranks than the campy cranks. So they're trying to blame it on your frame, when they've moved the chainline further out. They need to revise their BB axle length. Their fault. Matt O. |
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Matt O'Toole wrote: Cat Dailey wrote: Maybe, but I used the FSA bb that was supposed to go with the FSA crank. Some people have suggested that the chainline is supposed to be identical, but even I could see that the drive side crank sat further away from the frame on the FSA cranks than the campy cranks. So they're trying to blame it on your frame, when they've moved the chainline further out. They need to revise their BB axle length. Their fault. Matt O. I'm pretty sure that the FSA cranks mentioned by Cat are designed around the ISIS standard - 108mm BB. If I understand the ISIS licensing agreement correctly, in order to comply, you need to conform - redesigning the BB is not an option. Curiously, ISTR that the chainline is also part of the standard (but I am very likely mistaken in this). SYJ |
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"Cat Dailey" wrote in message
... For those of you who are interested in how the Campy Record Compact with compact front derailleur works: I had an FSA bottom bracket and FSA compact crank with regular Record front derailleur. As many others here experienced, the chain would often drop off to the inside, despite many, many adjustments. Also, I could not use the 34-23 combination without having bad chainrub. FSA told me that my short chainstays were to blame for the crappy chainline and that they didn't have a solution. I put on the new Record compact crank (34-50), bottom bracket, and compact specific front derailleur. VOILA! Great chainline, perfect shifting across all the gears without chainrub anywhere (even cross-chained), and I CANNOT get the darned chain to fall off (I am curious to know if you can pick it back up with the front derailleur, since I couldn't with the FSA setup...I'd have to get off of the bike to do it). While I think the FSA carbon crank is more aesthetically pleasing than the Record one, I just had to have better performance. Cat who is thrilled that it was SIXTY DEGREES near Philly today after having ridden tow or three times in the twenties in the last week ; I'm looking to get a Campy setup but using the FSA Compact Cranks instead of the Campy ones because of lower cost that FSA adheres to the 110 BCD standard. I was speaking with the guy from www.GVHbikes.com and he told me they have tried the new Campy compact front deraileur with the FSA SL-K Compact Megaexo, and it didn't work well at all. They were strongly recommending using the regular Campy front derailuer. I believe the Megaexo is an entirely different setup than ISIS, so that may create a difference as well. |
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Cat Dailey wrote:
"Paul Kopit" wrote in message ... On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 20:51:01 -0500, "Cat Dailey" wrote: I put on the new Record compact crank (34-50), bottom bracket, and compact specific front derailleur. VOILA! Great chainline, perfect shifting across all the gears without chainrub anywhere (even cross-chained), and I CANNOT get the darned chain to fall off (I am curious to know if you can pick it back up with the front derailleur, since I couldn't with the FSA setup...I'd have to get off of the bike to do it). I'd like to guess that if you took the Campy 50t ring and put it on the FSA cranks, that the chain would not drop either. I don't think that the front derailleur would pick up the dropped chain either. That's easy enough to test. I'm guessing that the placement and length of the shift pins on the FSA ring are the culprit in both the ring being rubbed when crossed with the small ring and hanging onto the chain for a fraction of a second too long. Nope, it was the chainline. FSA acknowledged as much and said it was "a problem" with short chainstay bikes like mine. For some reason, the drive side crank sits too far away from the bb. Cat Thanks for the posting... I have had the problem w/ the chain dropping off the inside as well. I am running the FSA carbon compact crank w/ the FSA Platinum BB (108)on a meduim Giant TCR frame (short chainstay). I just put the Campy compact specific front derraileur on and the shifting appears to be much better and the chain has yet to drop. I will be making a longer ride over the weekend to make sure. The trimming of the derraileur when on the large chain ring appears to be a bit more finicky, but I may need to make an adjustment here. |
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