Crankset and Rear for a London - Barcelona route

Ulises8

Hi Bikeradar!

I am new in the forum so please be gentle with me

I'm planning to cycle from London to Barcelona with my old Peugeot from the 90's but the only problem (so far) is that this bike has a 52-42t double cranckset and 24-15t at the back. Around a month ago I went from London to Brighton and there was a climb towards the end that was too much and I don't want this happening let's say for example at the Pyrenees .

Could you recommend me what to change taking into account price and how easy is to install? (I read that triple crancksets are harder to install).

Many thanks!!

bronco016

Hi

I can't really help you with your technical question I'm afraid.

Have you planned a route presumably? 4 years ago I did a charity ride from Dinard to Barcelona and the vast majority of the terrain was essentially flat apart from the Pyrenees of course. Our route took us from Dinard-Nantes-La Rochelle-Bordeaux-Pau-Pyrenees-Barcelona. I guess your route may e quite similar??

rubertoe

It should be relatively easy to change from a Double to a compact, but changing to a triple means changing the derailleur on the front along with the shifter, you will probably also need to change the rear derailiuer as well if you change to a triple.

And that is providing that you can still get a square taper BB and triple crankset, your basically looking at a whole new groupset.

So it might be better to change to a double and a longer derailuer.