Additional to yesterday’s submit, I’ve formally taken the Tremendous Report-ified Faggin for a correct journey:
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 permits the 11-speed Campagnolo brake levers to work with the 9-speed Shimano brakes:
Simply kidding:
However now the bike is formally operating fantastically, and I’m even glad I went with the purple hoods:
Although perhaps I ought to have paired them with the Zero Gravity brakes from the Plimpton bike:
I did take into account it, however they’re somewhat finicky to arrange and after overhauling two bikes in per week I actually didn’t have it in me. Plus, these Ultegrae are about nearly as good as rim brakes get, whereas the Zero Gravity brakes are mild and cool-looking and, properly, that’s it.
After all, 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 adjustments specifically stood out:
(I nonetheless don’t know what I used to be pondering once I removed that bike.)
One in all these adjustments is that you could not upshift throughout the complete cassette with one push of the Mickey Mouse ear; as a substitute, you may solely upshift three cogs at a time. The opposite change that the entrance shifter not has numerous 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 somewhat bit extra like a Shimano shifter.
I imply the entrance shifting works nice, and as an growing older Fred I sacrifice completely nothing “solely” with the ability to upshift three cogs at a time. Nonetheless, these two options have been those Campagnolo-philes have been by far probably the most unbearable about–that and the shifters being rebuildable, which I’m undecided 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 components 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.
Aside from that, the levers have that very same acquainted Campagnolo motion, the place shifting sounds and feels sort of like snapping a small twig. (In a great way.) And the “new” 16-year previous form is extraordinarily comfortable, perhaps the comfiest of any lever I’ve used. And so they work completely on a Shimano cassette with none type of kludgery. Better of all, they are saying Tremendous on them, they usually have speedholes:
However the actual query isn’t how 11-speed Tremendous Report compares with the elements that instantly preceded it; no, it’s how does it examine with the Campagnolo Tremendous Report of 1982?
Nicely, Tremendous Report 11 permits for three-gear upshifts, and five-gear downshifts. In the meantime, the Tremendous Report on the Cervino allows you to shift as many gears as you need at a time in both course–plus, you may function each levers on the identical time with the identical hand:
And what number of gears do you get? Tremendous Report 11 offers you…11. (Although I’ve been studying that you could kludge it all the way down to 9 with a Shimano derailleur.) As for the Tremendous Report of yesteryear, it doesn’t care what number of gears you employ. 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:
After all you’re not getting all these further gears with out a freehub, so Tremendous Report 11-speed is the clear winner there.
It additionally wins within the crank division:
Certain, it seems to be higher, however seems to be aren’t every little thing. Campagnolo 11-speed cranks is probably not fairly…
…however not less than you’re not caught with a 144 bcd.
However what concerning the brakes?
Sure, “fashionable” rim brakes (although even the latest rim brakes are antiquated now, sniff sniff…) really feel a lot better and have easy-to-change cartridge pads, however you’ve bought to steadiness that in opposition to the truth that basic Campagnolo brakes not solely had a quick-release not like their fashionable counterparts, however have been additionally single-pivot, and that Jobst Brandt mentioned dual-pivot is for “woosies:”
As for the levers that function them, ergonomics have definitely come a good distance:
Although Campagnolo likes to tout its “One Lever One Motion” strategy:
So by its personal standards its previous brake levers have been higher, since all they’d was the one lever, and all they did was the one factor.
Give it some thought.
