Whole again

Finally.
I haven't ridden my bike since the beginning of August. Two weeks of AT, five weeks of waiting for two broken ribs to heal. The ribs are pretty much healed up and I've finished the Campy upgrade to the bike.

Time to ride the bike again.

The upgrade isn't quite 100% done yet. I have all the parts, they are all installed and more or less work. Campy Centaur triple crank (50/40/30), Phil Wood Bottom bracket and a Campy Centaur front derailluer. But the shifting isn't quite as precise as I would like.

Here's what I think.
The spacing on the shimano BB wasn't quite right. When Aaron set the chainline, he set it to Shimano standard. If I set the derailleur stop the way it's supposed to, shifting into the small ring is sloppy when it happens at all. At the upper limit, I'm running up against the extreme right limit of the derailleur travel so shifting in the front isn't as crisp as I would like. It's a long, hard throw up against that right limit to get the chain to engage the big ring. The upper limit screw never even touches the derailleur body. And the autoshifting thing. I think that's because of the high cable tension at the right limit.

I'm betting if we move the chainline a couple of millimeters to the left, that'll fix things.

The gearing is a big chance. I gave up my tiny climbing gear. 28x34 for a ratio of 0.82. When I moved to the 12-27, I went dropped to a 1.04 small ratio. Now with the 30T small ring, my smallest ratio is 1.11. I decided I didn't need the tiny gears anymore. As Aaron said, sometimes you just gotta man up and climb the damn hill.