Nuovo Record Rear Deraileur Capacity
08-03-09, 09:49 AM
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Sorry to revive an old thread, but it's just the sort of information I'm looking for. My most recent addition came with a 45T single front chainring and a 14-32 5spd Suntour freewheel. The NR rear mech seems to work OK with this set-up, if a little unhappy with the 32. I am thinking of trying one of the IRD freewheels and wonder if their 13-32 is just pushing things too far, or should I play safe with the 13-28? This is a bike with fairly long chainstays and horizontal rear dropout.
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there is a lot of misinformation about the capacities ot the obsolete campagnolo nouvo record & super record rear derailleurs, they both have same geomertry. sutherlands & disreali gears are both in error. both sloane & delong stated in their books that the capacity is 30 teeth, at least in the long campy horizontal dropouts. i have done it,so it works. one of my friends who had a nottingham built raleigh international asked what the ultimate 12-speed gearing saving as much of the original components as possible. when we did this suntour ultra 6s were common. a 13 -14-17-21-26-30 cluster with chainrings that are five teeth apart, 38-43 to 47-52. if you have chainrings of 42-52 you could use a 13-15-17-19-21-24-28. harris cyclery lists this on their website as a stock combo. i would change the13 for a 14. campy revised the pivot point of their rear derailleurs to work with 10 tooth difference, it is still happier with a half step. the bike i worked on with the 42-52 chainrings george traded jim the used super record for a brand new 600 ultegra which shifted better than the campy. my friend who had the internatonal, i never rode a bike with a nouvo record that shifted as well as barrys did.
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The following isn't perfectly to scale, but it gets the point across. If anyone wishes to contest the line drawing's validity, I'll gladly pull the cages off a Nuovo and Super later today; for comparison. Nuovo is in yellow, Super in red:
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Reload it again - anyone else have Mike's problem?
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I see the image perfectly well. Nice comparison Kurt.
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I see your picture very clearly. I'm also impressed. How did you make it?
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Wow, that's a great drawing, Kurt! Almost as nice as my recent De Rosa drawing. 
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I've always run 50/42. 28 never a problem, even with 52. But yeah, you don't just throw one on, gotta perfect chain length.
