Final week I fitted “fashionable” wheels to the Cervino, and with 28mm Paselas and a 9-speed Hyperglide it’s working superbly–so superbly, that I ought to simply go away it the way in which it’s and cease messing with it, however sadly that’s not how I function:
As I discussed, placing a contemporary Hyperglide (or equal) chain and cassette on an previous drivetrain is such a dramatic enchancment in shifting that stuff like a dropped and slanted parallelograms turns into largely educational compared:
There’s no query a contemporary derailleur could be a good higher enchancment, however after I stopped to make a restrict screw tweak I appreciated as I all the time do this the “open” design of the previous Tremendous Document makes doing this really easy and handy that it would even outweigh the drawbacks of its primitive geometry. In the event you have a look at the low-limit screw (the one on prime) and the high-limit screw (the one on the underside) you’ll notice you you may see precisely the place they cease the derailleur in both route, which takes all of the trial-and-error out of the method:
Granted, this doesn’t actually imply a lot if you happen to’re all the time utilizing the identical wheels and solely must futz with the restrict screws on preliminary set-up, however if you happen to’re switching forwards and backwards between wheels with completely different gearing as I’ve been doing it makes these little changes that a lot simpler.
Additionally, look how straightforward it’s to take this factor utterly aside:
I as soon as tried to take an Ultegra derailleur aside and nearly misplaced an eye fixed when one of many springs ejected itself and left just a little gap within the wall. (Granted, you by no means truly must take an Ultegra derailleur aside, so I suppose almost blinding you is Shimano’s manner of reminding you to not do it.)
Anyway, talking of switching wheels and almost injuring myself, it rained all day Saturday which made it an ideal day to remain in and do some tire gluing:
I’d already been stretching these:
After which on Saturday these infants confirmed up courtesy of a reader who was correctly divesting himself of tubular tires and graciously supplied them to me:
I used to be very tempted to put in these high-quality tires as an alternative of the Gatorskins, however the roads are nonetheless fairly debris-strewn right now of yr, and it appeared a bit untimely to deploy the ballet slippers. Plus, I knew I’d make a large number of issues, and if I used to be going to screw up I figured it was higher to screw up on the Gatorskins. This proved sagacious, for whereas I did handle to get them on the wheels, I most likely obtained extra glue on the sidewalls than I did between the tire and rim.
Along with grappling with the tires, I additionally carried out a pulley transplant on the derailleur, for when placing on that 10-speed chain the opposite day I’d seen that one among them was cracked:
That is typical of previous Campagnolo derailleurs, as I realized throughout my time with the Teledyne Titan:
I’m certain you could possibly maintain using a cracked pulley like that indefinitely however I already take so many pointless dangers out of laziness I figured I would as nicely be accountable for a change. Fortuitously it seems that low-cost Shimano pulleys match completely, in order that’s what I used:
By the following day the solar had returned, so I went for a trip on the refurbished Cervino:
Shifting on the previous freewheel was noticeably improved with the 10-speed chain–one thing I’d additionally skilled in my time with the Vengeance Bike–so maybe the true key to raised shifting is solely a contemporary chain. Except after all it was that Shimano Tourney pulley improve:
As for the tires, if I zoom in on the clear components it nearly seems to be like I did a good job:
I did do an okay job of aligning them so that they roll good and easy:
Nonetheless, they do make a cheesy sound, like if you get a price ticket caught to the underside of your shoe within the grocery store. This factors to an insufficient glue job (shocker!) so I ought to most likely pull them off and add some extra. Would possibly as nicely, follow makes excellent…although lately gluing tires is a talent solely marginally extra helpful than fountain pen overhauling.
