Campy drive train with Shimano cassette

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vejnemojnen
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by vejnemojnen

another interesting solution:

campag 10spd shifters with PRE-2001 geometry campag derailer (ie.: 8 -9 speed ones with the older style cage and b-tension screw design.) Preferably with 11spd chain (no, you don't need to change the jockey wheels, 8-9spd pulleys will work fine)

absolutely noiseless and smooth on shimano-sram cassettes. Impossible to set-up correctly with campag cassettes. (actuation ratio is a bit less, so it's theoretically perfect for. cc 3.97mm spaced cassettes, vastly undershifts on a campag-one)

I know this, because running this combo for more than a year. I swear it works better than a true-all-out 10spd campy setup. And cheaper to maintain. One can get pre-2001 chorus derailers around 20-25EUR if know where to look.

source :
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bicycles/ ... ING_TABLES

old campy derailer (actuation ratio around 1.4-1.44) with 10 spd campag (roughly 2.8mm cable pull)--> calculated cog pitch in the 3.97-4.05 value. Just perfectly matches sram-shimano cassettes.

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