Campy Question

[bjf]

I bought a bike with a Record carbon crankset, Ultratorque 10s, 175, 53-39. (Too big for me.) I'd like to find a silver Campy crankset, Ultratorque 10s, 170, 50-34. What am I looking for? (I'm going to keep the rest of the drivetrain.)

[Hilltopperny]

Not sure what was offered in ultra torque in silver. 10spd silver was either square taper or power torque iirc. There is a carbon ultra torque Athena, but unsure if a silver variant exists that isn’t power torque.


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[Hindmost]

You are looking for a Veloce/Centaur/Athena ultra torque crankset. Available for the first few years of ultra torque before power torque (not that there is anything wrong with that). They are a little thin on the ground.

[R3awak3n]

You can try to find an athena silver UT crank, thats 11 speed but would work great with 10sp. These are becoming rare, if compact, which is what you want, its going to cost you $$$$. They can go foe $250+ On ebay

10 speed UT and silver I think there is centaur. Also rare.

[zmudshark]

2007 Centaur and Veloce came in CT silver UT. Record/Chorus CT never silver, even in square taper, if my memory is working tonight.

[thwart]

Originally Posted by Hindmost

You are looking for a Veloce/Centaur/Athena ultra torque crankset. Available for the first few years of ultra torque before power torque (not that there is anything wrong with that). They are a little thin on the ground.

True. IIRC the Athena is actually '11 spd', although works just fine in a 10 spd drivetrain.

If you're willing to put up with the add'l hassle of PowerTorque, you can find some very nice silver compact cranksets at good prices.

Fun fact: the 10 spd PowerTorque Veloce 50/34 crank + bottom bracket was actually around 50 gms lighter than an UltraTorque Centaur 50/34 + bottom bracket, same crank arm length. I've owned both.

[Black Dog]

You will find what you are looking for in 11spd. It will work flawlessly with a 10spd drive train. Lots of 11spd options out there in ultratorque

[msriddle]

I have a 11spd Athena in 50/34 172.5 if you are interested.
Silver, Ultra Torque of course.

[Dino Suegiù]

Originally Posted by bjf

I bought a bike with a Record carbon crankset, Ultratorque 10s, 175, 53-39. (Too big for me.) I'd like to find a silver Campy crankset, Ultratorque 10s, 170, 50-34. What am I looking for? (I'm going to keep the rest of the drivetrain.)

In Campagnolo Ultra-Torque, 50-34, 170mm, Silver, your options are:
Centaur, Ultra-Torque, 50-34 CT, 10s, 5-arm
(fairly rare new, worth looking for, beautiful, but has the older proprietary CT 110/112mm bcd)


Potenza, Ultra-Torque, 50-34 CT, 11s, 4-arm
(commonly available, easier chainring exchanges due to standardized, common (53-39/52-36/50-34), bcd)


Centaur, Ultra-Torque, 50-34 CT, 11s, 4-arm
(commonly available, chainring exchanges due to standardized, common (53-39/52-36/50-34), bcd)



I think Veloce and Athena 50-34 CT were all Power-Torque rather than Ultra-Torque (but I may be wrong in some years/iterations, maybe when Athena/Centaur/Veloce were crossing over for a bit...I forget...).

[jtakeda]

Theres a Veloce ultraque crank in silver. I have it sitting on my workbench downstairs. I'm actually switching from PT to UT just because I think its easier to deal with and once I pull the PT stuff Im going to sell the crank and tools

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by Hilltopperny

Not sure what was offered in ultra torque in silver. 10spd silver was either square taper or power torque iirc. There is a carbon ultra torque Athena, but unsure if a silver variant exists that isn’t power torque.


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2007 was first year for UltraTorque, Campag all in on everything but Xenon..Mirage(all black tho), Veloce and Centaur all had silver, UltraTorque cranks..all 10s.
2009 first year of 11s and 2011 first year of PowerTorque..lots of silver, UT cranks..11s works as well with an otherwise 10s 'system.

Record/Chorus CT never silver, even in square taper, if my memory is working tonight.

That is correct.

[flying]

I would go with Potenza Silver like Dino showed.

I have a Potenza group & the quality/price is really nice.

[Doug Fattic]

Here is a new in the box never used or installed Ultra Torque Centaur 170mm crank with 50/34 rings. I just dug it out of storage yesterday to see if this was the crankset I want to use on a new frame/bicycle I want to build for myself for spring. Originally I bought it to use on frame I built for my daughter but ended up using Shimano instead. I'm not a fan of the newer cranksets that have wider arms that look better on thicker frames but not so much on skinny steel tubes. I can be persuaded out of it with enough incentive . The problem for me is that either a Rene Herse or Sugino crank I might prefer are really expensive. In case you want to deal, my email is my name in all lower case with no space between my first and last name and after the at, the 3 next letters are a q as in quality, t as in Tom and m as in Mary and finally dot net.

[thwart]

That is gorgeous.

And awfully hard to find... NOS? Like a needle in a haystack.