FSA - Campagnolo Compatible?

p3t389

Hi there

I am looking at the Centaur groupset but am put off by the reports of the chainrings looking shabby after a fairly short time.

Planet X are selling the FSA SLK compact for £135 and I was wondering whether this is Campagnolo compatible. The website says it is Shimano compatible but makes no mention of Campag?

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

redddraggon

Works fine, I run a Gossamer chainset with my Campag on my Winter bike

APIII

I've got an FSA K-Force light on a campag equiped bike. I'd think carefully about choosing an FSA chainset over campag. Despite being correctly torqued, the crank arms have worked themselves loose on two occasions. This is bad enough, but the second time was 4km from the top of Pla D'adet on the last day of my holiday and with no 8mm hex key on my multitool Also, the shifting is not quite as smooth as my old campag chainset. It's perfectly ok, but campag is better.

p3t389

Thanks for the replies guys

rjsmith

Yep, I've used them fine with shimano, Campag and SRAM. Just like the ultratorque bolt, you can add a bit of threadlock to the crank bolts if you are worried. Never had a problem with the bolts coming loose.

andy.dennis@ubs.com

I had the FSA carbon crankset with my Centaur chainset and found the changes up a bit ropey, changed to the Campag version and all was silky smooth

disgruntledgoat

APIII wrote:

I've got an FSA K-Force light on a campag equiped bike. I'd think carefully about choosing an FSA chainset over campag. Despite being correctly torqued, the crank arms have worked themselves loose on two occasions. This is bad enough, but the second time was 4km from the top of Pla D'adet on the last day of my holiday and with no 8mm hex key on my multitool Also, the shifting is not quite as smooth as my old campag chainset. It's perfectly ok, but campag is better.

What you want is one of those ultratorques... No problems there ahemhemhem

Monty Dog

I have an FSA Mega Exo and a Chorus compact and to be honest, difference in performance is impercaptable. The FSA cranks are allegedly more flexy, but at 65kg I'm not really going to notice. The downside of the Ultratorque is the need for specialist tools to replace the bearings. The FSA chainset now comes with threadlock and instructions to prevent loosening, so installation is key - as with all external BB chainsets IME. At £135 the SLK from P-X is a good deal - I was lucky to get a 165mm which is my preference but hard to obtain.