Additional to yesterday’s put up, I’ve formally taken the Tremendous File-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 crimson hoods:
Although perhaps I ought to have paired them with the Zero Gravity brakes from the Plimpton bike:
I did think about it, however they’re a bit finicky to arrange and after overhauling two bikes in per 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 gentle and cool-looking and, nicely, 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 era a few modifications specifically stood out:
(I nonetheless don’t know what I used to be pondering once I removed that bike.)
One among these modifications is you can not upshift throughout the complete cassette with one push of the Mickey Mouse ear; as an alternative, you’ll be able to 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 virtually such as you do with a friction shifter (and I feel additionally made the elver inherently triple-compatible); as an alternative, it now has solely 4 positions and works a bit bit extra like a Shimano shifter.
I imply the entrance shifting works nice, and as an ageing 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 no less than not formally.) Then once more I do not know if Campagnolo nonetheless provides the small elements 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.
Other than that, the levers have that very same acquainted Campagnolo motion, the place shifting sounds and feels type of like snapping a small twig. (In a great way.) And the “new” 16-year previous form is extraordinarily cozy, perhaps the comfiest of any lever I’ve used. And so they work completely on a Shimano cassette with none form of kludgery. Better of all, they are saying Tremendous on them, they usually have speedholes:
However the true query isn’t how 11-speed Tremendous File compares with the elements that instantly preceded it; no, it’s how does it evaluate with the Campagnolo Tremendous File of 1982?
Nicely, Tremendous File 11 permits for three-gear upshifts, and five-gear downshifts. In the meantime, the Tremendous File on the Cervino enables you to shift as many gears as you need at a time in both route–plus, you’ll be able to function each levers on the similar time with the identical hand:
And what number of gears do you get? Tremendous File 11 offers you…11. (Although I’ve been studying you can kludge it right down to 9 with a Shimano derailleur.) As for the Tremendous File 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 downside, and I guess it could deal with 11 simply nice:
After all you’re not getting all these further gears and not using a freehub, so Tremendous File 11-speed is the clear winner there.
It additionally wins within the crank division:
Certain, it appears higher, however appears aren’t all the things. Campagnolo 11-speed cranks might not be fairly…
…however no less than you’re not caught with a 144 bcd.
However what concerning the brakes?
Sure, “trendy” rim brakes (although even the latest rim brakes are antiquated now, sniff sniff…) really feel significantly better and have easy-to-change cartridge pads, however you’ve obtained to stability that towards 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 mentioned dual-pivot is for “woosies:”
As for the levers that function them, ergonomics have actually come a great distance:
Although Campagnolo likes to tout its “One Lever One Motion” method:
So by its personal standards its previous 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.
