[CR]Campy Grand Sport "matchbox" Front Changer - Clamp Diameter Dilemma!!

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From: <"billungardesign@juno.com">
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:23:04 GMT
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Campy Grand Sport "matchbox" Front Changer - Clamp Diameter Dilemma!!

Dear Classic Rendezvous - Trying to install this baby on my '58 Ideor Asso road bike with much fru stration! The Grand Sport"matchbox" front changer has a solid steel bod y and chromed steel clamp (neither of which bend at all). The 1 1/8" cla mp diameter is just too small for the 1 3/16" diameter seat tube on the Ideor.

The angled clamp bolts seem to allow some adjustment - but - I don't wan t to dig the sides of the clamp into my new paint job - and don't want t o crush the seat tube!

Were there other Campy Grand Sport front changers that could accomodate a 1 3/16" dia seat tube? Is there something I'm doing wrong? Ideor used Campy Grand Sport gear change for their bikes of this era, bu t hey I can't see the guy at the Ideor factory in Savona, Italy in 1958
going through this!
Bill Ungar
Torrance, CA