Campy chainrings on Shimano Crank?
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Campy chainrings on Shimano Crank?
Hi,
I have a 135bcd shimano dura ace crankset, and since campy's chainrings are all 135bcd, I'm wondering if its normal and kosher to put campy chainrings on this crank? Would there be any compatibility issues?
Thanks,
Brian
I have a 135bcd shimano dura ace crankset, and since campy's chainrings are all 135bcd, I'm wondering if its normal and kosher to put campy chainrings on this crank? Would there be any compatibility issues?
Thanks,
Brian
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Are you very sure about the BCD on those Dura Ace chainrings? Every Shimano outer and middle road chainring and crank I've ever seen has a bcd of 130mm except the compact rings which are 110 mm. I've never seen any Shimano cranks with a 135 mm bcd.
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Shimano has never produced a 135 BCD crank.
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Since their introduction in the early 1970s Dura Ace cranks have had 130mm bolt circle chainrings. There is not now nor has there ever been any 135mm Shimano chainring.
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If you are not sure, you have to measure the distance between bolt holes carefully and look up or calculate the bcd from that.
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and if I recall, Campy 130 BCD is not the same as Shimano 130 BCD: 1 bolt is slightly offset on the Campy making you use only campy chainrings.....
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What you are thinking of is Campy's compact cranks with a nominal 110 mm bcd. Campy made the bolt circle 110 mm like everyone else BUT offset one bolt a bit so their rings wouldn't fit on any other 110 mm crank and no other 110 mm chainrings would fit on a Campy compact crank. Cute huh?
Again, IIRC, they only did this for the Record and Chorus compact cranks. Centaur, etc. did use a standard 110 mm bcd and would accept other makers rings.
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Right idea but the wrong details. Campy does not, and AFAIK has never has made 130 mm bcd chainrings.
What you are thinking of is Campy's compact cranks with a nominal 110 mm bcd. Campy made the bolt circle 110 mm like everyone else BUT offset one bolt a bit so their rings wouldn't fit on any other 110 mm crank and no other 110 mm chainrings would fit on a Campy compact crank. Cute huh?
Again, IIRC, they only did this for the Record and Chorus compact cranks. Centaur, etc. did use a standard 110 mm bcd and would accept other makers rings.
What you are thinking of is Campy's compact cranks with a nominal 110 mm bcd. Campy made the bolt circle 110 mm like everyone else BUT offset one bolt a bit so their rings wouldn't fit on any other 110 mm crank and no other 110 mm chainrings would fit on a Campy compact crank. Cute huh?
Again, IIRC, they only did this for the Record and Chorus compact cranks. Centaur, etc. did use a standard 110 mm bcd and would accept other makers rings.
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