Stick with Campy or switch to Shimano ?

[HLaB]

Serious (though still ill-informed) response: you like campy; how often do you have to change cranks? If the answer is not "often", stick with what you know/like and come to terms with occasionally paying someone to change the cranks.

I changed a Shimano about 3 times this year, One the bb was worn out, built another bike with a donated 50/34 crankset and swapped the 38/52 for a compact for it before Liege-Bastogne-Liege but the year before just once (a bb change) and that was the first before sram tookover truativ the bb's seemed to last 14,000 miles +, they're made of cheese now. I guess I'm probably incorrectly anticipating campag will fail with the same frequency :-/

 

[winjim]

Campagnolo has some idiot on the Management Team call it Campy. I will never say that word. CAMPAG.

But the G is silent.

 

[HLaB]

I'll maybe have to have another go at it @winjim I got the lbs to swap the 53/39 for a compact for the Marmotte back in 2013, I think it was power torque. I changed back to the 53/39 for TT's this year and couldn't get the compact off, resorted to the shop again :-/

 

[winjim]

I'll maybe have to have another go at it @winjim I got the lbs to swap the 53/39 for a compact for the Marmotte back in 2013, I think it was power torque. I changed back to the 53/39 for TT's this year and couldn't get the compact off, resorted to the shop again :-/

Oh yeah, Power-Torque is stupid. It goes on with an allen key, but you need a special tool to take it off again.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Stick with Campag but use a Shimano chainset. You are not tied to anything other than shifters and rear mech, even a Shimano cassette will work with a Campag gear train on 10 and 11 speed.

 

[ayceejay]

Seeing as you call it 'Campy' then you should go Shimano.

It's 'CAMPAG' tisk tisk. Says the Shimano only boy for 30 years.

Sarah Palin said, and I do believe she is on the money. that all immigrants should speak American because - something I couldn't quite get -
but she has an acute understanding of language and so if they say Campy then Campy it is, innit.

 

[Sharky]

Gears are for losers, go SS or fixed

A fixed TT machine is not to be discounted. You'll probably do a PB on a flattish course, on a windless day. On gears you might just use 2 or 3 max. On a fixed, you will be lighter and probably quicker.

Last season I ran 2 similar bikes. One geared and one fixed and over the season I was quicker on gears, but only by 20 seconds. This season I rode fixed throughout and ended up just 4 seconds down on my best from last year. I wish I could prove that gears are convincingly quicker, but I have failed, so next season will be keeping to fixed, but might invest in some tri spokes or a disc, if I can save enough from my pension.

 

[derrick]

Fit a Rotor Crank, That's what i use with Campagnolo.

 

[Tin Pot]

What's so tricky about campag crank sets?

My next replacement part will be a veloce crankset.

 

[Tojo]

Campagnolo or just Campag.....:Please...FF S......

 

[Ian H]

Stick with Campag but use a Shimano chainset. You are not tied to anything other than shifters and rear mech, even a Shimano cassette will work with a Campag gear train on 10 and 11 speed.

Yup. Mix and match whatever works best.

 

[woohoo]

I prefer Campag shifters to all of the others but am "blessed" with a PowerTorque chainset. When the bearings go, that will be replace by a Shimano 105 or Ultegra unit. I don't care what the purists say. (... and the PowerTorque design is truly crap from a maintenance point of view).

 

[zizou]

Depends on budget i suppose, but if it can stretch to Di2 then that would be ideal for a TT bike

 

[winjim]

Depends on budget i suppose, but if it can stretch to Di2 then that would be ideal for a TT bike

You mean EPS?

 

[shadow master]

Italian or Japanese technology..... Just look at the history of the countries says it all,Italy had the only economy in the world that was going backwards in the economic boom!