Gearing for old legs

[bagpuss]

Well as the years roll on my use of of big gears fades into memory.
I now find a 44 tooth front outer chain ring plenty and a 30 inside suits for hilly rides . Rear cassettes 11 to 34 . All well and good on modern machine .
On some of the classic bikes I have a 52 ,42 is just to much .
I have old T A touring set ups on two of my old machines . These are fine .
My question is what's available that will work with 5 speed freewheels .
Sun xcd exceed chainsets seem to of disappeared from the market.

Any pointers please .

 

[Nob]

 

[grantoury]

IRD crankset with 94bcd

 

[winjohn]

Would this work?

https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m8b0s109p4984/SPA-CYCLES-TD2-Stronglight-Dural-Double-Chainset

 

[LondonClassic]

Get a triple and remove the outer ring (fitting spacers of course)?

 

[doctor-bond]

Get a triple and remove the outer ring (fitting spacers of course)?

Yes: put a chain guard on instead of the outer and run a middle and inner that suit. Or Sugino Maxy or GT which are 110 bcd, or Campag Victory or Gran Sport at 116bcd? (less choice there though)

 

[bagpuss]

Thanks to all for replies .
The Spa is bit higher than I want to go chain ring size.
I shall investigate IRD further.

The IRD looks well made , I needed a whisky after seeing the price

 

[winjohn]

Thanks to all for replies .
The Spa is bit higher than I want to go chain ring size.
I shall investigate IRD further.

https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m8b0s109p3383/SPA-CYCLES-TD-2-Super-Compact-Chainset-with-Zicral-Rings

This goes down to 40/24

 

[bagpuss]

A distinct possibility, sensible price as well.

I will have to check out the chain alignment

 

[grantoury]

Thanks to all for replies .
The Spa is bit higher than I want to go chain ring size.
I shall investigate IRD further.

The IRD looks well made , I needed a whisky after seeing the price

To be honest, I didn't really look at it til now... A bit much perhaps. Velo Orange have a TA style crankset that is a "bit" cheaper: