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@Howard
Mmmm. Didn't stop me from getting over the Pennines on mine, but I agree it might not be ideal.
Having said that though the brief was race + commute. A compact chainset is pretty useless for racing, but a cyclocross chainset works for getting you from a-b. So I'd lean towards a CX chainset anyway if I was going to race it.