Campagnolo bike

cycleclinic
cycleclinic Posts: 6,865
edited October 2017 in Your road bikes
Well it is meant to be a promo bike but it will be ridden and I am keeping it. It is all mine. The frame is made by Sarto.

I dont like the saddle so that will change., probably a BERK carbon saddle. I like these. Undecided on the wheels. The Shamals are not tubeless so they have to go. The bars well I could buy the carbon Deda 35mm bars but that is not urgent.

pedals will be either record profit or Garmin vector 3.

the groupset is Campagnolo Record EPS. I had to connect my phone to the bike to get it to work. something wrong there but it does make a nice sound changing gear and if I want to kill myself I could play around witht he shift settings on my phone while I am riding. I dont want to kill myself so I won't.

Chainring need to change. 53/42T is what I want So that means either Campag outer or TA outer for the 4 arm record or I could use that Comp ultra chainset I have and fit either 53/39T carbon Ti rings or TA 53/42T rings. What I know I can use the the 50/34T rings on the bike. I am used to 1x11 I really dont want a small inner ring.

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Comments

  • pnev
    pnev Posts: 236
    Why a 53/42T?

    Are you Chris Hoy?
  • I ride a 1x11 road bike with a 52T chainring and either a 11-21T cassette (I did a 24 hrs TT on that) or a 12-27T . I hardly use a 39T inner ring. when Iwear out my 39T inner rings they will be replaced with 42T or the bikes converted to 1x11 or 1x10. I have one bike with 53/41T rings and the inner ring on that is useful. a 42T would be better for me.

    I am not with the modern trend of spin at high cadance, when I do and I can and do from time to time, I am no quicker than when I turn the pedals at a lower cadance. This evening ride on 1x11 showed that. average cadance 65 rpm for a 24.3km ride with 243m of climbing at 32.9kph. I dont like spinning.
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  • pnev
    pnev Posts: 236
    Fair enough

    My knees are crying just thinking of that haha

    Did you get the bike from chickencycles?
  • Pnev wrote:
    Why a 53/42T?

    Are you Chris Hoy?

    He lives in Suffolk, 42 is plenty. I have 42 on my period bike in Italy... can go up most climbs in the Alps with 42 x 26
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  • He lives in Suffolk, 42 is plenty. I have 42 on my period bike in Italy... can go up most climbs in the Alps with 42 x 26
    I couldn't get up my driveway on 42/26, never mind the Alps :mrgreen:
  • He lives in Suffolk, 42 is plenty. I have 42 on my period bike in Italy... can go up most climbs in the Alps with 42 x 26
    I couldn't get up my driveway on 42/26, never mind the Alps :mrgreen:

    Have you ever tried?

    Look, this was probably a bit too much (especially the second steeper climb)

    https://www.strava.com/activities/930441717

    This was fine (except maybe a couple of Km a bit steep)

    https://www.strava.com/activities/936154430

    This was perfect, I wouldn't want a smaller ring for this

    https://www.strava.com/activities/939006928
    left the forum March 2023
  • How does one get a Campagnolo test bike? :o
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Sarto. Very, very nice.
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  • shipley
    shipley Posts: 549
    How does one get a Campagnolo test bike? :o

    I was wondering that too
  • i ride alot and i ride alot in tall gears. the more you do it the more able you are to it without harming your knees.

    i once did an hour long climb on 41/27T and the first 5 km were at 11%.

    https://www.strava.com/activities/17425 ... 4064803148

    I am not sure having lower gearing would have been of help (except for the bit near the end that went vertical) it is still a big hill and gravity is my enemy.

    To get a campagnolo bike you need to be a dealer and they are not put on the chcickens b2b either. I know the rep well he said there is one in my size so it was mine. They are not for sale to the public. Well I could sell in about a year but I wont.

    now I am off to italy again in october. Should I take the campagnolo bike or the sannino?
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  • term1te
    term1te Posts: 1,462
    That's a very nice, understated but classy bike. I'm also in Italy in October, I'll keep an eye out for it.
  • He lives in Suffolk, 42 is plenty. I have 42 on my period bike in Italy... can go up most climbs in the Alps with 42 x 26
    I couldn't get up my driveway on 42/26, never mind the Alps :mrgreen:

    Have you ever tried?

    Look, this was probably a bit too much (especially the second steeper climb)

    https://www.strava.com/activities/930441717

    This was fine (except maybe a couple of Km a bit steep)

    https://www.strava.com/activities/936154430

    This was perfect, I wouldn't want a smaller ring for this

    https://www.strava.com/activities/939006928

    I'll stick with 34/32 thanks :mrgreen:
  • you'l have to be around scalea to see me term1te.
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  • He lives in Suffolk, 42 is plenty. I have 42 on my period bike in Italy... can go up most climbs in the Alps with 42 x 26
    I couldn't get up my driveway on 42/26, never mind the Alps :mrgreen:

    Have you ever tried?

    Look, this was probably a bit too much (especially the second steeper climb)

    https://www.strava.com/activities/930441717

    This was fine (except maybe a couple of Km a bit steep)

    https://www.strava.com/activities/936154430

    This was perfect, I wouldn't want a smaller ring for this

    https://www.strava.com/activities/939006928

    I'll stick with 34/32 thanks :mrgreen:

    I know folks who ride up serious gradients on a fixed gear, I am talking 12-15% often exceeding 70 inches (roughly speaking a 50 x 21 or harder) with no ill effects. It's mostly in the head and of course, you need to get your legs used to those gears... but it is entirely possible. In the specific, for Suffolk 53 x 42 is perfectly adequate.

    As the title suggests... no need for the small ring in middle England either

    https://www.strava.com/activities/1177383145
    left the forum March 2023
  • Nice, a friend of mine also has one.
  • and in essex, herts, norfolk, camb, lincs...pretty much every where I ride 53/42T is fine.
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  • term1te
    term1te Posts: 1,462
    you'l have to be around scalea to see me term1te.

    Not much chance then, I'll be right the other end in Varese.
  • pnev
    pnev Posts: 236
    The average age of posters in here is easily 87.

    Times have changed folks, get a more efficient gearing set-up
  • Shipley wrote:
    How does one get a Campagnolo test bike? :o

    I was wondering that too

    There have been a couple of these on eBay the last couple of months.
    Shop demo bikes I guess.
  • my gearing is quite effiicent thank you. given you have never seen me ride how can you say it isn't. As I have said you get used to what you use if that is spinny gears or tall gears. Reducing my gearing only means my legs spin quicker for a given speed that by itself is not more efficient. I am going to be a pedant now.

    Your argument does not make much sence. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10551337
    another http://www.jssm.org/vol13/n1/16/v13n1-16pdf.pdf

    In fact for long rides a cyclist will choose what is the most optimal cadence. more me that is around 60 to 70 rpm because that is what I am used to over many years. For others it is 90 rpm because that is what they are used to over many years.

    A range of 70-90 rpm is normal. In race my cadance is higher 80ish but on solo rides or long TT's it is lower if I am plodding then it quite low.
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  • Yep I have seen those. I think they must be for official Campagnolo outlets or something. Unfortunately not come across a small yet ........... so I am just admiring the ex Tommy Voekler's C60 at £7.5k from afar.
  • ravey1981
    ravey1981 Posts: 1,111
    Swap the groupset out for shimano....just to annoy people...
  • That would annoy me.
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  • agnello
    agnello Posts: 239
    Pnev wrote:
    The average age of posters in here is easily 87.

    Times have changed folks, get a more efficient gearing set-up

    Yes, and disc brakes, power meter etc etc

    It always bugs me when Cycling Plus et al review a <7KG bike and complain that 39x26 gearing is way too tall. Even conventional compacts don't seem low enough for them now.

    Then I've always been a diesel too...

    I wouldn't necessarily correlate age with gear preference though, Might make you sound a bit churlish
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  • proto
    proto Posts: 1,483
    Cheap respray and An upgrade to Ultegra Di2 and you’ll have a lovely bike.
  • Here's mine;

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    Sarto Asola,
    Campagnolo Chorus EPS
    Spada Stiletto's
    Vittoria Pave

    Slighty small for me, hence saddle height, could perhaps extend the stem. Great for climbing though.
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  • cycleclinic
    cycleclinic Posts: 6,865
    The bike has a new saddle now and record pedals. 7.45kg. not sure why it is so heavy. I still need to get the 42T inner ring
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  • beanstalk
    beanstalk Posts: 143
    7.45kg. not sure why it is so heavy.
    Electric components.
    Tall frame, big fork, have you weighted them?