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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