I might recommend not being so focused on buying a complete crankset. Just buy the cranks you like and then order the rings in whatever size you prefer. I'm just building up a new bike and ended up going with a guide/44/30 on an old SunTour triple crank I had around.
Once I gave up on trying to be fast, I have shifted all my big rings down to either 44 or 46 teeth. I am fond of either Salsa or Surly chainrings. Both are cheap and last a loooong time. Also take a look at just about any cyclocross offering. Cheers, Scott On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Johnny Alien <johnnyal...@verizon.net> wrote: > So I am planning a winter build of a new road bike and am getting a list of > what parts I want to put on it. I am stuck a bit on what I want to do with > the crankset. I know I want to go compact double but that's about it. I > don't mind spending some cash but don't want to spend silly money either. > My ideal would have been the Sugino Alpina that VO used to sell in 48/34. > That seems to be gone and there are very few Sugino 48/34 offering and most > are lower quality. So if I give up on finding 48/34 my options open up a > but with the 50/34 group. The Alpina is available but only the Alpina 2 > which I think is slightly lower quality. There is also the IRD Defiant in > that group that gets really good reviews but also has a very different look. > That crankset is actually available in a wide 46/30 range which sounds very > useful but not sure how that would work for mostly road riding conditions. > > Any advice on nice 48/34 square BB offerings? What about the 50/34? IRD, > Sugino....other nice offerings. I like the WI cranks but they get too > expensive in the long run. Anyone use that wide range 46/30? Thanks!! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
