We’ve been sneaking peeks at it for the previous month, however now the all-new Campagnolo Tremendous Document 13 is lastly right here. And it’s each higher than we imagined, and simply the tip of the iceberg of what to anticipate from Campy this summer time.
First off, the fundamentals: Sure, it’s an all-new wi-fi digital 2x 13-speed highway bike groupset. It brings again the thumb shifter, collectively now with extra new customizable shift buttons, too. It’s additionally as soon as once more lighter than the opposite top-tier highway bike groupsets from both Shimano or SRAM. And, it’s really even noticeably cheaper than the earlier technology of Tremendous Document Wi-fi 12sp that launched simply two years in the past. Plus, whereas it’s only out there proper now in typical highway 2x configurations, Campagnolo is asking Tremendous Document 13 a very new ‘platform’. And peeks have been sneaked of it already racing Unbound final weekend with a separate clutched Tremendous Document 13 rear derailleur.
OK, let’s dive into the main points…
Campagnolo Tremendous Document 13 wi-fi 2x13sp highway groupset
Campagnolo’s ‘excellent quantity‘ of some years in the past is out the window once more, in favor of yet one more cog for smoother gear steps OR wider vary, relying on what you’re searching for. Campy appears to be persevering with a sneaky development. Simply when individuals depend them out, they’ve nonetheless managed to be the primary to introduce 2×10, 2×11, 2×12, and 1×13-speeds with manufacturing highway and gravel groupsets.
And now Campagnolo takes 13-speed to the subsequent stage with an all-new wi-fi 2×13-sp Tremendous Document 13 highway group that they describe because the “first pillar” of a brand new SR13 platform.
How did it come to be?
What we all know right here is that after Campy’s idea of going ‘sports activities luxurious’ got here with a variety of justifiable backlash from precise cyclists who wished expertise & efficiency inside attain, the storied Italian drivetrain maker went again to the drafting board. They wished to create a highway groupset that outperformed the competitors from Shimano & SRAM. However Campagnolo additionally determined to do this at a worth stage that no less than some actual cyclists may really afford. That’s the place we’re right here with this.
So, how did Campagnolo make all that work?
Lighter, Easier, and Extra Inexpensive
Let’s begin with 17% extra inexpensive, as a result of frankly, that feels an important to me. When Tremendous Document Wi-fi 12sp launched, I used to be shocked at how advanced a few of it was, particularly the shifters. With out even explaining why, the SR WRL group had these actually advanced titanium linages to drive two shift buttons on the backside of the lever in a extra pure arc, mimicking how your fingers transfer. It regarded and appeared spectacular, however Campagnolo by no means even actually highlighted the answer.
As a substitute of that lovely complexity, the brand new Tremendous Document 13 goes all in on simplicity. To unravel the identical drawback, the brand new groupset merely places the button again up contained in the Ergopower shifter physique, and a a lot less complicated carbon lever actuates it. Plus, Campagnolo returned to their conventional thumb shift lever. The result’s only a less complicated setup that didn’t require that additional complexity. And finally, it’s extra sensible design & improvement selections like this that had been in a position to assist lower prices with out chopping efficiency. It even appears to have helped trim weight too, shedding greater than 3% off the earlier 12-speed wi-fi groupset.
1 Extra Gear & Quicker Shifting, Too!
Apparently, including a thirteenth pace didn’t actually appear to battle with simplicity or pricing both. It’s nonetheless primarily 13 gears in the identical width as earlier than – similar to Ekar. So, I assume, at a sure level, including an additional gear solely added a marginal quantity of extra machining.
However Campagnolo was at first involved that shifting throughout 13 cogs vs. 12 can be slower, so that they labored onerous to counter that. Ultimately, they made the brand new derailleur shift even faster throughout your complete cassette. Simply 2.4 seconds to shift all the way in which up the block, and only one.9 seconds to shift all the way in which again down. (A full 36% sooner up, and 47% sooner down than Tremendous Document WRL 12-speed!) And for the reason that cogs are literally even nearer than earlier than, it made every particular person shift even that additional bit sooner than earlier than.
So what all is definitely new?
New Campy Tremendous Document 13 Wi-fi Ergopower Shifters
The actual coronary heart of the brand new Campagnolo Tremendous Document 13 groupset, and finally your complete new platform, is the brand new set of wi-fi Ergopower shifters. Whereas they’ve a well-known Campy really feel, these are all new Egropowers.
Nonetheless uneven to suit your palms, however now already a bit barely turned in (and designed to max out the UCI allowable roll-in place.)
The hoods are a bit flatter and longer on high, whereas the grip part of the hood is smaller total. Plus, the ‘horn’ on the highest of the lever is smaller, whereas nonetheless retaining sufficient actual property to carry onto if you happen to like a hunched-over-the-levers aero place. And importantly, the pivot of the brake levers strikes additional away from the bar for extra assured braking with much less hand drive, additionally releasing up more room beneath the physique to your palms with out really rising total attain. It feels a bit like Campagnolo has managed to deliver again the smaller hoods from earlier than hydraulic brake grasp cylinders dominated hood shapes, now that digital shift internals are a lot smaller, with only a CR 2032 coin cell battery on the surface of every.
After all, the transfer again to ‘one lever, one motion’ with only one hollowed-out shift paddle behind the carbon brake lever means much more area to your fingers, irrespective of the place you maintain onto the bars. Plus, it provides customers extra flexibility to place the adjustable lever attain for the proper brake lever match and really feel.
Returning Thumb Shifters and All-New Sensible Buttons, too!
Then, the returning inside thumb shifters allow you to both shift together with your thumbs such as you at all times did previously. Or because of the additional room beneath the smaller Ergopower our bodies, you may typically even attain round whereas using on the hoods to shift that prolonged interior button with the tip of a center finger. Campagnolo even thought-about a two-way shift of the thumb button, very like a SRAM AXS Rocker shift paddle. However finally added the decrease plastic fin to stop the unintended shifts that might occur whereas sprinting within the drops.
Possibly an important addition to quiet the naysayers and draw new riders in on the similar time, Campagnolo has added new Sensible Buttons on the inside ideas of the hoods, in a similar way to each high Shimano & SRAM wi-fi teams. However these uncovered Tremendous Document 13 Sensible Buttons are the smoothest and best I’ve ever used. Plus, the good identify alerts not solely you can configure both button to manage any shift path you need (up or down, entrance or rear). But additionally they will every do a couple of operate – for instance, quick press to shift the rear up, lengthy press to shift the entrance derailleur to the opposite place.
On high of that, there’s successfully a 4th management button on every lever. The Mode button not solely manages setup & adjustment modes. In case you pair a Garmin or Wahoo pc, it’ll default to controlling your GPS machine and/or linked equipment, with out having to require that additional operate from the Sensible Buttons.
New Tremendous Document 13 Wi-fi Entrance & Rear Derailleurs
After all, with new 13-speed shifters comes new matching, absolutely wi-fi derailleurs.
Every part is all new right here. However the largest distinction might be the lighter and lower-profile design, stated to “scale back proper facet overhang” by 25% in comparison with Tremendous Document Wi-fi 12. Meaning a extra ahead derailleur place for improved chain wrap throughout a wider vary of cog sizes, and fewer derailleur uncovered to both wind or impacts. But additionally diminished weight, too. Once more saving weight with a full carbon cage.
The brand new rear derailleur additionally incorporates a new mount design, very like Shimano’s direct mount design. This lets Campagnolo embrace both an ordinary hyperlink to mount to any typical derailleur hanger. Or they will substitute it with Campy’s personal UDH-interface-specific hanger that’s stiffer for extra exact shifts and appropriate with all the newest bikes.
Campy repeatedly refers back to the new Tremendous Document 13 as “not only a new groupset – a brand new platform, constructed to adapt seamlessly to each highway and gravel“. Meaning there received’t simply be this one rear derailleur, however probably one other model optimized for 1x highway setups, a model with a clutch like we raced 2x gravel at Unbound, and sure an extended cage model with a clutch for extra journey gravel using.
The entrance derailleur is extra compact, as effectively, reducing weight whereas additionally bettering rear tire clearance.
New Campy Batteries, too
That is one other instance of simplicity. The brand new Tremendous Document 13 derailleurs get new batteries, as effectively, now choosing a single easy LED per battery to point cost standing.
After all, SRAM patents hold them from being interchangeable entrance to rear. However no less than Campagnolo was in a position to make these new batteries backward appropriate with the earlier SR WRL 12 & SR WRL S 12 groupsets.
Plus, Campy nonetheless manages to make batteries that may be both charged on the bike (with a proprietary magnetic cable) or eliminated and charged away out of your bike.
The brand new Campagnolo Tremendous Document 13 derailleurs will ship with the identical old-school USB-A charging cables for now. However battery charging cables will shift to USB-C this summer time, and people cables will even be out there individually for anybody who desires to improve new or earlier technology wi-fi Campy groupsets.
New Tremendous Document 13 cassettes
Merely put, the brand new SR13 cassettes use the identical 13-speed spacing and N3W freehub compatibility as Ekar, and are once more designed to deal with larger torque hundreds however with larger efficiency. That primarily comes from the monoblock machined metal development, new tooth & shift ramp profiles, and new floor therapy. Like Ekar, the primary three cogs kind a tiny machined monoblock, as do the ultimate 4 or 5 cogs machined from a single block of cast metal. Then, the remaining center cogs are fashioned free, with typical cassette spacers.
Then, an all-new floor therapy that Campy calls ‘black chrome’ protects the cassette for sturdiness, whereas on the similar time considerably decreasing drivetrain operating noise.
Finally, the brand new tighter 13-speed cog spacing and smaller gearing jumps imply faster, extra exact shifting. And paired with the sooner shifter and derailleur motor actuation, a lot sooner shifting total.
A brand new 13-speed chain, too
The chain itself can be new, though the distinction vs. the Ekar 13-speed chains appears fairly minor. Each share the identical new thinner 13-speed particular dimensions, solely the brand new chain of Tremendous Document 13 now options hole pins to avoid wasting a little bit of weight. However, the brand new Tremendous Document 13 chain additionally sports activities the brand new black chrome end because the cassettes to ship that very same long-lasting, low-friction, and quieter operating efficiency.
Confusingly, the take a look at bike we rode (all different bikes I noticed) with the brand new groupset had black chrome R13-branded chains, however Campy PR exhibits a brand new chain labeled C13 (the identical as Ekar.) In any case, there is no such thing as a SR13 chain, which in accordance with earlier Campy naming conventions, can be even lighter with hollowed-out facet plates, too. Possibly Campagnolo is saving that for a good lighter version of Tremendous Document 13 down the highway?
Up to date carbon cranks & brakes
For essentially the most half, cranks and brakes have remained unchanged from Tremendous Document Wi-fi 12, or actually even the Tremendous Document 12 Mechanical groupset from seven years in the past. Though the Excessive Precision Energy Meter is a more recent possibility. That’s not dangerous, although. These earlier carbon cranks with their stiffening ring are stiff, mild, and look nice. And I nonetheless assume these Campy disc brakes have but to be topped for balanced energy, modulation & quiet operating.
What’s new for the cranks is a brand new backside bracket structure, transferring the bearing retention spring clip to the non-driveside (the place it at all times ought to have been) for simpler entry. After which, a brand new Qck-Tech ti axle shifts the 10mm inner hirth-joint spindle pinch bolt to traditional right-hand threads to cut back the variety of confused mechanics attempting to take away a crankset. (Though, actually, now seasoned Campy mechanics are gonna combine this new one up with the earlier years of them.)
Plus, additionally they get new 2×13-speed particular chainrings, in much more gearing mixtures.
For brakes, the brand new pivot location of the levers farther from the bar would require a bit diminished enter drive out of your palms to come back to a cease. However the brakes themselves didn’t change, though they did get new titanium bolts to shed a gram or two alongside the way in which. Campy additionally added a brand new sintered brake pad possibility for improved brake efficiency in moist climate. Campagnolo Tremendous Document 13 groupsets will nonetheless come commonplace with the identical natural pads, although. You simply received’t should go to the aftermarket for braking energy optimized for using in hostile circumstances.
Tech Particulars – “Not only a group set, a brand new platform“
- all-new Ergopower shift and brake lever ergonomics with longer tops & elevated brake leverage
- new single-function lever shift button, single-function thumb shift button & programmable Sensible Button shifter
- all shift buttons are absolutely customizable with the up to date MyCampy app
- multi-function Mode button will management linked GPS computer systems
- quickest in the marketplace shifting, even throughout all 13 speeds
- 25% thinner rear derailleur in comparison with SR WRL 12sp
- new decrease fiction 14T pulleys with narrow-wide tooth for enhanced chain retention
- ceramic higher pulley bearing and decrease pulley bushing for diminished drag and optimized alignment
- lighter entrance derailleur physique with enhanced tire clearance
- less complicated batteries with single LED cost indicators
- simpler brake line & crankset set up
- 4 cassette choices out there now: 10-29T, 10-33T, 11-32T & 11-36T
- 7 chainring choices out there now: 55/39, 54/39, 53/39, 52/36, 50/34 & 45/29, 48/32
- 4 carbon crank arm size choices: 165, 170, 172.5 & 175mm
- low-key straight out of the carbon mould graphics
- 2445g full groupset weight (down from 2520g for SR WRL 12)
- claimed lightest full 2x disc brake highway groupset in the marketplace
- >80% made in Europe* between Campagnolo’s factories in Italy & Romania
We obtained a novel look contained in the Vicenza manufacturing facility final week, with an unique Manufacturing unit Tour story coming quickly!
(*excludes batteries, silicon chips & servos/motors made in Asia)
Campagnolo did tease us with the thought that they’ve one thing within the works that might save greater than sixty grams off this already mild groupset across the finish of this summer time.
Campagnolo Tremendous Document 13 – Pricing, choices & availability
Formally, the brand new Campagnolo Tremendous Document 13 groupset goes on sale right this moment for 4300€ as a whole 2x13sp highway setup. You decide your thought gearing setup, whether or not you’re searching for race-ready pace or all-day endurance gearing. A reminder, that’s 900€ cheaper than Tremendous Document Wi-fi 12 by the way in which, or simply 300€ greater than the ‘price range’ Tremendous Document S WRL 12. Each of these groupsets stick with it for 12-speed followers, and perhaps you’ll discover some closeout offers on them quickly, however we suspect most individuals shopping for new premium Italian groupsets will solely be fascinated about 13-speed now.
In case you are trying to get a brand new bike already kitted out with the newest Campagnolo gruppo, you’ll probably get a primary shot with basic large Italian bike manufacturers like Colnago, De Rosa, or Pinarello, for instance. Campagnolo says they’ll be a number of the first to supply the brand new groupset, however many extra that already promote Campy specs will shortly observe go well with. And Campagnolo are working onerous to increase their OEM partnerships, particularly with Tremendous Document 13 persevering with to develop throughout a number of dropbar markets this summer time and coming autumn.
Customized bike builders are additionally anticipated to be a preferred possibility for Campy Tremendous Document 13 builds. Campagnolo has already ready a brand new dream construct gallery as a spot to share essentially the most distinctive customized builds with their new groupset.
Preserve your eyes peeled for our first rides impressions later right this moment, from the hills above the Vicenza manufacturing facility and headquarters!
