Gee whiz; I didn't realize how lucky I am. Other than my "modern" bike (Ergo equipped Mondonico), my only other index shifting bike is a C-Rec equipped Cinelli Super Corsa. Syncro1 levers work very nicely on this so I haven't spent much time with them in friction mode other than to try it out.
Charlie Young
>
> Polish them up, put them on a shelf and marvel about how Campy grossly
overcomplicated the
design in order to make the lever work with every freewheel, chain, and
derailler ever
made, while also having a friction mode AND being user servicable... but don't
try to get
it to work on a bike. It won't. They did work with SR just as well as with
Victory, with
Regina freewheels as well as Suntour, which is to say they worked with none of
it. Campy
wouldn't accept that the der, FW and shifter all needed to be designed
together, like
Shimano had done a few years ealier. I guess the interchangability was going
to be the
selling point over Shimano.
> Initially the stuff was billed as equipment for recreational riders. Perhaps
this was to
sooth the traditional racer types. When the stuff didn't work they said it
was "more
rider dependent than Shimano," appealing to people's pride in their skill, I
suppose. But
what is the point of indexing, particularly if aimed at recreational riders, if
it isn't
idiot-proof?
> Tom Dalton
> Bethlehem, PA
> Tom Hayes <hayesbikes@mail.nls.net> wrote:I have a set of Campagnolo
shifters (thank you,
Russ) that I would like to
> identify and understand. They are braze-on, with highly polished smooth
> shifter arms, with the winged logo toward the top. The rear derailleur
> shifter, the one I need understand its function, has a small lever mounted
> next to the big shifter. The smaller lever can be moved forward (ahead of
> the regular lever). When so moved, one can see two small holes, one
> smaller than the other, and each hole containing a set screw that can be
> accessed from the other side of the smaller lever. (I suppose a picture
> here might be worth those hundred or so words, huh?)
>
> Does anyone know, based on that description (or I could send a jpeg), which
> model of shifter this is and what function the smaller shifter and the two
> sets screws perform?
>
> Once again, thank you for your knowledge and thanks to Dale for providing
> the forum (got to get the yearly public thanks to Dale. Watch him rule
> this as an "atta boy" and kick me off the list.)
>
> Cheers.
>
> Tom
>
> Tom Hayes
> 18585 Munn Road
> Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44023
> hayesbikes@nls.net
> hayes@jcu.edu
>
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