|   Compact Rings or Standard? | Ottoreni
Jan 6, 2004 4:48 PM | | I am building my first bike, a hardtail. Looking at the cranks I am unable to decide which size cranks to get. My current bike has compact rings (94mm Chainring). The one before that had compact 94mm Chainrings also.
What are the benefits of a standard 110mm? Would I notice the difference?
Thanks in advance for the help! |
| Are 110mm BCD mountain cranks even still made? | Tscheezy
Jan 6, 2004 5:15 PM | | Most current offerings are either 5-arm 58/94mm BCD or 4-arm 64/104mm BCD cranks. The 4-arm are more common (e.g. Shimano) and becomming even more common all the time. If you are thinking about new cranks, get some 64/104mm ones for the greatest selection of rings down the road. If you currently have cranks and are just looking for rings, well, you can only put 94mm rings on 94mm cranks, so that makes that easy. 110mm BCD cranks are quite uncommon nowadays.
tscheezy |
| Yes - and yes, less common (nm) | aosty
Jan 6, 2004 9:33 PM | | nm = numb meat |
| Yes - and yes, less common, BUT... | SDMike
Jan 7, 2004 10:22 AM | | 110mm rings are less and less frequently used EXCEPT if you race 'cross, then almost everyone is using them.
The advantage: you can run many, many different sized rings. I have 20, 22, 24, 34, 36, 38, 46, 48, 50, & 53t rings for my cross bike depending on what I'm doing with it. I'll set up the crank with the 38/50 rings in the spring/summer for track specific gear training, 34/46 for cross racing, etc.
You can get an AC crankset that looks a lot like an XTR setup from Cambria that you can use adaptor to get either compact or standard ring sizes if you really want to.
That help?
Mike |
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