Additional to yesterday’s put up, I’ve formally taken the Tremendous Document-ified Faggin for a correct trip:
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 working fantastically, and I’m even glad I went with the pink hoods:
Although possibly I ought to have paired them with the Zero Gravity brakes from the Plimpton bike:
I did take into account it, however they’re a bit of finicky to arrange and after overhauling two bikes in every week I actually didn’t have it in me. Plus, these Ultegrae are about pretty much as good as rim brakes get, whereas the Zero Gravity brakes are mild and cool-looking and, properly, that’s it.
In fact, 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 era a few modifications specifically stood out:
(I nonetheless don’t know what I used to be considering after I removed that bike.)
Certainly one of these modifications is that you may not upshift throughout the whole cassette with one push of the Mickey Mouse ear; as a substitute, you possibly can solely upshift three cogs at a time. The opposite change that the entrance shifter not has a lot of clicks, which allowed you to trim the derailleur nearly such as you do with a friction shifter (and I believe additionally made the lever inherently triple-compatible); as a substitute, it now has solely 4 positions and works a bit of bit extra like a Shimano shifter.
I imply the entrance shifting works nice, and as an getting old Fred I sacrifice completely nothing “solely” having the ability to upshift three cogs at a time. Nonetheless, these two options have been those Campagnolo-philes have been by far essentially the most unbearable about–that and the shifters being rebuildable, which I’m undecided the 11-speed levers are, both. (Or at the least 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 outdated form is extraordinarily comfortable, possibly the comfiest of any lever I’ve used. They usually work completely on a Shimano cassette with none form of kludgery. Better of all, they are saying Tremendous on them, and so they have speedholes:
However the actual query isn’t how 11-speed Tremendous Document compares with the parts that instantly preceded it; no, it’s how does it examine with the Campagnolo Tremendous Document of 1982?
Nicely, Tremendous Document 11 permits for three-gear upshifts, and five-gear downshifts. In the meantime, the Tremendous Document on the Cervino permits you to shift as many gears as you need at a time in both route–plus, you possibly can function each levers on the identical time with the identical hand:
And what number of gears do you get? Tremendous Document 11 provides you…11. (Although I’ve been studying that you may kludge it right down to 9 with a Shimano derailleur.) As for the Tremendous Document of yesteryear, it doesn’t care what number of gears you utilize. Whereas the Cervino got here with a six-speed freewheel, I’ve used 9 with no drawback, and I wager it could deal with 11 simply nice:
In fact you’re not getting all these additional gears with no freehub, so Tremendous Document 11-speed is the clear winner there.
It additionally wins within the crank division:
Certain, it appears higher, however appears aren’t every part. Campagnolo 11-speed cranks is probably not fairly…
…however at the least you’re not caught with a 144 bcd.
However what in regards to the brakes?
Sure, “trendy” rim brakes (although even the most recent rim brakes are antiquated now, sniff sniff…) really feel significantly better and have easy-to-change cartridge pads, however you’ve acquired to steadiness that in opposition to the truth that traditional Campagnolo brakes not solely had a quick-release in contrast to their trendy counterparts, however have been additionally single-pivot, and that Jobst Brandt stated dual-pivot is for “woosies:”
As for the levers that function them, ergonomics have definitely come a great distance:
Although Campagnolo likes to tout its “One Lever One Motion” method:
So by its personal standards its outdated brake levers have been higher, since all that they had was the one lever, and all they did was the one factor.
Give it some thought.
