At 4:59 PM -0700 8/28/02, Chuck Schmidt wrote:
>Jim McCoin wrote:
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> > Classic content, I bought the Coppi, Anquetil combination DVD and
>there is a brief seen of Fausto shifting a Cambio Corsa, very smooth
>and elegant.
>
>I can see why you were expected to pull out of the pace line to execute
>a shift with Cambio Corsa and Paris-Roubaix derailleurs, as you
>definitely have to look down to see what cog the chain shifted to.
Ok, Looking at what Chuck wrote just makes me hang my head. I think the Cambio Corsa is really interesting and someday I hope own a bike with the CC setup. With that said how did it ever make it from the beta test phase? Was it a couple of guys making "offers you can't refuse" to the racers or something? I've ridden a bike with it before and did actually shift it, though far from smoothly. I've also ridden a few deraileurs from the time too. The actual deraileurs of the time seem to shift quicker and smoother than the CC setup. I'm not even going to bring in elliptical geared hubs which were much better than either, IMHO.
The Cambio Corsa is pretty low tech so would be easier for the racer
to fix during the race. The same low tech aspect also made it quite
tough, but these are the only things that I see the CC setup has over
deraileurs. So my question is why did racers use the Cambio Corsa?
enjoy,
Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
SB, CA
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