compact cranks

[alpinerabbit]

It's usually easier to switch to a compact than a triple.

I did it on my first bike. No, it will not make you faster, as Andrea says, but +1 to what she said: it may preserve your strength on hills so you last longer. And it will save your knees (I hurt a ligament grinding up hills in my first year).

Folks call the regular double the "hero crank" and that's what it's for. I don't see how amateurs should have much use for it unless they live in a flat area. I see how shops sell them because it is "the standard" of old times.