Experience with Campagnolo 990?
10-19-09, 12:18 PM
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Experience with Campagnolo 990?
WOuld anyone have any experience with Campagnolo 990 derraileurs? Were they considered to have a good reputation? Anything I should pay particular attention to in assessing a vintage bike equipped with them? In this case, they are mounted on Gipiemme dropouts, not Campagnolo.
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10-19-09, 02:35 PM
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I have a few 980 mechanicals but never used them on a bike. I cannot see how they would be any better or worse than any other Campy mechanical. I don't believe Campagnolo made parts to repair them, unlike their other components. They were designed to be disposable or maybe to last forever!
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By disposable should I assume not worth the trouble? Any reason why they never got put to use? I would be planning on riding with these.
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Again, I don't see any difference in a 980 or say a Nuovo record. Campy just didn't offer repair parts for 980.
I just have more parts than i have frames to run them on so the 980 sits in a box. My personal favorite Campy rear is the Victory. In fact, the entire Victory group is my favorite of the friction shifting era.
I just have more parts than i have frames to run them on so the 980 sits in a box. My personal favorite Campy rear is the Victory. In fact, the entire Victory group is my favorite of the friction shifting era.
10-19-09, 03:21 PM
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The 980 or 990 rear mech is a mechanical dead ringer for the Nuovo Record, and maybe closer to the last Super Record as far as teeth capacity. When I was a poor college student, and needed to but back together a bike, that is what I used, saving $50.
As to the fronts, they evolved quite a bit, I have seen one that would be a Record mechanical clone, others that would not be, the lever arms were too thin and they flexed too much under shifting.
As to the fronts, they evolved quite a bit, I have seen one that would be a Record mechanical clone, others that would not be, the lever arms were too thin and they flexed too much under shifting.
10-19-09, 04:31 PM
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I never thought the 980 looked anything like a Nouvo Record. I used one for a few months and it was OK. Bianchi specd them on some bikes in the mid '80s (I am sure everyone did too)
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I never thought the 980 looked anything like a Nouvo Record. I used one for a few months and it was OK. Bianchi specd them on some bikes in the mid '80s (I am sure everyone did too)
https://velobase.com/SearchVisual_Lis...9-365d651b2233
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Again, I don't see any difference in a 980 or say a Nuovo record. Campy just didn't offer repair parts for 980.
I just have more parts than i have frames to run them on so the 980 sits in a box. My personal favorite Campy rear is the Victory. In fact, the entire Victory group is my favorite of the friction shifting era.
I just have more parts than i have frames to run them on so the 980 sits in a box. My personal favorite Campy rear is the Victory. In fact, the entire Victory group is my favorite of the friction shifting era.
The Victory was basically just a nicer finished 980, I swapped the chrome bolts of a Victory onto a 980 a while back.
10-20-09, 10:22 AM
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Great Stuff. Thanks.
The Campy 990 is on a Torpado Beta that I'd debating going to see. She wants $300 and from photos it looks well kept. To me it is only worth it if I can ride the thing though - so durability of that 990 setup is important to me.
The Campy 990 is on a Torpado Beta that I'd debating going to see. She wants $300 and from photos it looks well kept. To me it is only worth it if I can ride the thing though - so durability of that 990 setup is important to me.
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The front derailleurs look very similar - 980, 990 - NR. Better finish on the NR.
Rear derailleurs - different story.
Rear derailleurs - different story.
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