What chainset for time trials?
Looking at getting a Campag Centaur groupset for my Equinox frameset. My road bike has a Veloce compact chainset which suits for me for the 30-40 mile club rides I do. However, planning on doing some time trials soon. What chainset do I need for time trials, does it matter as long as I’ve got plenty of teeth on the outer chainring? I will be doing 10 mile time trials over hilly courses.
PS No I don’t want Shimano before anyone suggests it!!!
It’s really up to you. You need gears that you are comfortable with. While being competitive in a TT may, optimally,require you to push the tallest gear you can for the time of the race in my view it would be silly to put big gears on a bike that you can’t push at a normal cadence (i.e. ~90 rpm). If the compact setup you have is good for you on club rides it will do fine for TTs. The only reason to consider a different setup would be because whatever you have now doesn’t have any gears that you can’t spin at 110 rpm or so … and I doubt that’s the case.
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