Triple

The Resurrecto is evolving. After my last mixed-terrain-lots-of-climbing-ride (hereafter referred to as a "mixter") on the hacked RB-1, I decided to put a triple on it. 



I sort of feel bad doing this, since it makes my Rawland a bit redundant. The Rawland will still be my proper mountain/rough-stuff bike and deep snow bike, but I think the majority of my long mixter rides will be on the RB-1. Compared to the Rawland, it just feels a lot more spry. Especially on a mixter where more than half of the overall mileage is paved. I guess it might be a good thing that the RB-1 can't take the new quasi-motos and the Hetres. I always must have a bike that can take the Hetres.



Anyway, I've had this bitchin' Sugino PX crankset in my stash for a while. It's obviously a clone of the TA Cyclotouriste -- very French/classic looking. I originally got the crank set to make a 44/30 double, but I'm flush in those normally-hard-to-find cranks (86 BCD, the PX, and 94/58 bcd compacts) at the moment. So I can use the PX as god intended it to be used: as a triple with 48/36/26 rings. Set up with a 11-26 cassette, I'm good to go. A 12-28 would make a tad more sense, but 11-26 is close enough.



I had to add about 3 mm of spacers to the 122 mm bottom bracket to get the cranks to work, and it's a tight fit. A hair less tolerance than I like, but I can live with it.