Hi Damien, Maybe there should be an award for the daftest silly bike build........your misunderstanding of the cable clamp could qualify..........however, maybe not quite as daft as something a old mate once did..........whilst building his bike up from scratch he fitted the chainset..ON THE WRONG SIDE!.........but what makes this more outstanding is he was at the time a proffessional rider for the famous Holdsworth Campagnolo team!........clearly better at riding a bike than building them!
Glad you got it sorted
cheers
Kevin Sayles
Bridgwater
Somerset UK
> It occurs to me this clamp maybe should go on the down tube, rather than
> the seat tube?
> now, that is embarrassing...
> Sorry to trouble the list...
>
> Damien Roohr
> Canton, CT
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "damien roohr" <droohr@comcast.net>
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Sent: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 11:46:37 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Proper positioning of BB shifter cable clamp
>
>
> Hope someone can help:
>
> Trying to finish the build-up of the Comp GS (in time for cirque), and
> having an issue with the Campy BB shifter cable clamp.
> On the RD side--the right hand side when looking down-- there are two
> separate cable channels, and one protruding tab. Using the longer of the
> channels, the graceful "swoosh" shaped one, is obvious. But from there,
> the upward heading channel seems to be for an FD.. so that is out of the
> equation. But there is a lower protruding tab that has me stumped.. when
> positioned in good cable alignment (with the shifter, the RD, etc.) the
> darn Tab is actually in the way of smooth operation of the cable. I need
> to slide the clamp up high to run the cable below the tab.. and if i slide
> the clamp lower, to run the cable over the tab, the clamp is up against
> the BB lug on both sides and torquing the clamp will press the FD and RD
> guides outward.....
>
> Does one generally just grind this pesky tab off??? Or am I doing
> something wrong?
>
> thanks
>
> Damien Roohr
>
> Canton, CT