Hi BatBike... I have two road bikes at the moment - both racing bikes. I want another for training but that is in the future.

My road race bike is a compact and it is good in bunch racing.

My TT bike is a "normal" double... I don't need low gears and in fact I could probably ride TTs with just one, because I rarely use the small chain ring.

My EMC came with a compact, but that wasn't THE reason I bought it.

My Giant came with a "normal" double, and we have swapped the big chain ring for a bigger one so I could have bigger gears to get on top of in a TT...

Dunno if thats useful at all, but thats me and my bikes.