Additional to the day before today’s put up, I’ve formally taken the Tremendous Report-ified Faggin for a correct experience:
I did have to show round and change saddles, because the low-profile ass hatchet used to be bottoming out at the seatpost clamp, making it much more punishing at the perineum than it already used to be:
Then there used to be the strange prevent to fine-tune the moving:
And naturally I needed to calibrate the adapter that permits the 11-speed Campagnolo brake levers to paintings with the 9-speed Shimano brakes:
Simply kidding:
However now the motorbike is formally working superbly, and I’m even satisfied I went with the pink hoods:
Even though possibly I will have to have paired them with the 0 Gravity brakes from the Plimpton motorbike:
I did imagine it, however they’re somewhat finicky to arrange and after overhauling two motorcycles in every week I truly didn’t have it in me. Plus, the ones Ultegrae are about as excellent as rim brakes get, while the 0 Gravity brakes are gentle and cool-looking and, smartly, that’s it.
In fact, Campagnolo 11-speed has been round since like 2009, so I’m about 16 years past due in this, however as somebody who’s used to the former era a few adjustments particularly stood out:
(I nonetheless don’t know what I used to be considering once I removed that motorbike.)
This type of adjustments is that you’ll not upshift throughout all of the cassette with one push of the Mickey Mouse ear; as an alternative, you’ll handiest upshift 3 cogs at a time. The opposite replace that the entrance shifter not has a variety of clicks, which allowed you to trim the derailleur nearly such as you do with a friction shifter (and I feel additionally made the elver inherently triple-compatible); as an alternative, it now has handiest 4 positions and works somewhat bit extra like a Shimano shifter.
I imply the entrance moving works nice, and as an getting older Fred I sacrifice completely not anything “only” having the ability to upshift 3 cogs at a time. Nonetheless, the ones two options have been those Campagnolo-philes have been by means of some distance essentially the most unbearable about–that and the shifters being rebuildable, which I’m now not positive the 11-speed levers are, both. (Or no less than now not formally.) However I do not know if Campagnolo nonetheless provides the small portions for its 10-speed or 9-speed shifters, both, or if the 11-speed shifters even put on out like the former ones did.
Excluding that, the levers have that very same acquainted Campagnolo motion, the place moving sounds and feels more or less like snapping a small twig. (In a great way.) And the “new” 16-year previous form is terribly at ease, possibly the comfiest of any lever I’ve used. They usually paintings completely on a Shimano cassette with none kind of kludgery. Best possible of all, they are saying Tremendous on them, and they have got speedholes:
However the true query isn’t how 11-speed Tremendous Report compares with the parts that instantly preceded it; no, it’s how does it examine with the Campagnolo Tremendous Report of 1982?
Neatly, Tremendous Report 11 lets in for three-gear upshifts, and five-gear downshifts. In the meantime, the Tremendous Report at the Cervino allows you to shift as many gears as you need at a time in both course–plus, you’ll function each levers on the similar time with the similar hand:
And what number of gears do you get? Tremendous Report 11 offers you…11. (Even though I’ve been studying that you’ll 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. Whilst the Cervino got here with a six-speed freewheel, I’ve used 9 without a downside, and I guess it could maintain 11 simply positive:
In fact you’re now not getting all the ones further gears with out a freehub, so Tremendous Report 11-speed is the transparent winner there.
It additionally wins within the crank division:
Certain, it appears to be like higher, however appears to be like aren’t the entirety. Campagnolo 11-speed cranks might not be lovely…
…however no less than you’re now not caught with a 144 bcd.
However what in regards to the brakes?
Sure, “modern” rim brakes (regardless that even the most recent rim brakes are antiquated now, sniff sniff…) really feel a lot better and feature easy-to-change cartridge pads, however you’ve were given to stability that in opposition to the truth that vintage Campagnolo brakes now not handiest had a quick-release not like their trendy opposite numbers, 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 undoubtedly come some distance:
Even though Campagnolo likes to tout its “One Lever One Action” means:
So by means of its personal standards its previous brake levers have been higher, since all they’d used to be the only lever, and all they did used to be the only factor.
Take into consideration it.
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