Additional to yesterday’s put up, I’ve formally taken the Tremendous Document-ified Faggin for a correct trip:
I did have to show round and swap saddles, because the low-profile ass hatchet was bottoming out on the seatpost clamp, making it much more punishing on the perineum than it already was:
Then there was the odd cease to fine-tune the shifting:
And naturally I needed to calibrate the adapter that enables the 11-speed Campagnolo brake levers to work with the 9-speed Shimano brakes:
Simply kidding:
However now the bike is formally working superbly, and I’m even glad I went with the purple hoods:
Although possibly I ought to have paired them with the Zero Gravity brakes from the Plimpton bike:
I did think about it, however they’re just a little finicky to arrange and after overhauling two bikes in per week I actually didn’t have it in me. Plus, these Ultegrae are about pretty much as good as rim brakes get, whereas the Zero Gravity brakes are gentle and cool-looking and, nicely, that’s it.
In fact, Campagnolo 11-speed has been round since like 2009, so I’m about 16 years late on this, however as somebody who’s used to the earlier technology a few modifications specifically stood out:
(I nonetheless don’t know what I used to be pondering after I removed that bike.)
Certainly one of these modifications is you can not upshift throughout your complete cassette with one push of the Mickey Mouse ear; as a substitute, you’ll be able to solely upshift three cogs at a time. The opposite change that the entrance shifter not has a lot of clicks, which allowed you to trim the derailleur nearly such as you do with a friction shifter (and I feel additionally made the lever inherently triple-compatible); as a substitute, it now has solely 4 positions and works just a little bit extra like a Shimano shifter.
I imply the entrance shifting works nice, and as an getting older Fred I sacrifice completely nothing “solely” having the ability to upshift three cogs at a time. Nonetheless, these two options had been those Campagnolo-philes had been by far probably the most unbearable about–that and the shifters being rebuildable, which I’m unsure the 11-speed levers are, both. (Or not less than not formally.) Then once more I do not know if Campagnolo nonetheless provides the small elements for its 10-speed or 9-speed shifters, both, or if the 11-speed shifters even put on out just like the earlier ones did.
Other than that, the levers have that very same acquainted Campagnolo motion, the place shifting sounds and feels form of like snapping a small twig. (In a great way.) And the “new” 16-year outdated form is extraordinarily cozy, possibly the comfiest of any lever I’ve used. They usually work completely on a Shimano cassette with none form of kludgery. Better of all, they are saying Tremendous on them, they usually have speedholes:
However the true query isn’t how 11-speed Tremendous Document compares with the parts that instantly preceded it; no, it’s how does it evaluate with the Campagnolo Tremendous Document of 1982?
Properly, Tremendous Document 11 permits for three-gear upshifts, and five-gear downshifts. In the meantime, the Tremendous Document on the Cervino helps you to shift as many gears as you need at a time in both course–plus, you’ll be able to function each levers on the similar time with the identical hand:
And what number of gears do you get? Tremendous Document 11 offers you…11. (Although I’ve been studying you can kludge it all the way down to 9 with a Shimano derailleur.) As for the Tremendous Document of yesteryear, it doesn’t care what number of gears you utilize. Whereas the Cervino got here with a six-speed freewheel, I’ve used 9 with no drawback, and I guess it will deal with 11 simply high-quality:
In fact you’re not getting all these additional gears and not using a freehub, so Tremendous Document 11-speed is the clear winner there.
It additionally wins within the crank division:
Positive, it seems to be higher, however seems to be aren’t every thing. Campagnolo 11-speed cranks is probably not fairly…
…however not less than you’re not caught with a 144 bcd.
However what in regards to the brakes?
Sure, “fashionable” rim brakes (although even the latest rim brakes are antiquated now, sniff sniff…) really feel significantly better and have easy-to-change cartridge pads, however you’ve acquired to steadiness that towards the truth that basic Campagnolo brakes not solely had a quick-release in contrast to their fashionable counterparts, however had been additionally single-pivot, and that Jobst Brandt stated dual-pivot is for “woosies:”
As for the levers that function them, ergonomics have definitely come a great distance:
Although Campagnolo likes to tout its “One Lever One Motion” method:
So by its personal standards its outdated brake levers had been higher, since all they’d was the one lever, and all they did was the one factor.
Give it some thought.
