Athena RD ID?
02-07-12, 05:07 PM
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Athena RD ID?
Can anyone ID this derailleur?
https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=170777812659
The seller says its from 1985 but to my knowledge Athena was introduced in the late 80's ('88?). I just busted one that I IDed as one of these:
https://velobase.com/ViewComponent.as...4af7d&Enum=108
And the one the seller is listing looks very similar but it says "Athena" on the cage. It also seems to be the model with a bolt-type position adjuster rather than the one in the last image of the above link. Can anyone say what era this was? I'm running 7-speed right now.
Thanks
https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=170777812659
The seller says its from 1985 but to my knowledge Athena was introduced in the late 80's ('88?). I just busted one that I IDed as one of these:
https://velobase.com/ViewComponent.as...4af7d&Enum=108
And the one the seller is listing looks very similar but it says "Athena" on the cage. It also seems to be the model with a bolt-type position adjuster rather than the one in the last image of the above link. Can anyone say what era this was? I'm running 7-speed right now.
Thanks
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Someone just mentioned to me in an earlier post that the version you show (I have the exact same RD) is a second gen Athena, most likely later 80's then....
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No way the ebay example is from '85, probably later than '95. The slant parallelogram (suntout patent) design didnt start for campy until early 90's and it was several years later before they started with painting the model name on the derailler which really takes the fun&skill out of ID'ing them!
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No way the ebay example is from '85, probably later than '95. The slant parallelogram (suntout patent) design didnt start for campy until early 90's and it was several years later before they started with painting the model name on the derailler which really takes the fun&skill out of ID'ing them!
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ok, so will this work with a 7 speed friction set up? How many speeds was it made for at the time?
or even a 7 speed synchro set-up? I'm assuming at this point, ergo had been introduced.
or even a 7 speed synchro set-up? I'm assuming at this point, ergo had been introduced.
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The Athena derailleur above is a mid 90's 8 speed ergo version.
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Can anyone ID this derailleur?
https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=170777812659
The seller says its from 1985 but to my knowledge Athena was introduced in the late 80's ('88?). I just busted one that I IDed as one of these:
https://velobase.com/ViewComponent.as...4af7d&Enum=108
And the one the seller is listing looks very similar but it says "Athena" on the cage. It also seems to be the model with a bolt-type position adjuster rather than the one in the last image of the above link. Can anyone say what era this was? I'm running 7-speed right now.
Thanks
https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=170777812659
The seller says its from 1985 but to my knowledge Athena was introduced in the late 80's ('88?). I just busted one that I IDed as one of these:
https://velobase.com/ViewComponent.as...4af7d&Enum=108
And the one the seller is listing looks very similar but it says "Athena" on the cage. It also seems to be the model with a bolt-type position adjuster rather than the one in the last image of the above link. Can anyone say what era this was? I'm running 7-speed right now.
Thanks
If you run Syncro, do you have the right insert?
It'll run friction just fine, though.
I'll PM you and you can email me back.
02-07-12, 08:32 PM
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This. My guess 95-97, forget the exact date Campagnolo started putting the group name on the derailleurs.
02-08-12, 12:07 AM
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that would be 1996 I believe...95 was the last year sans logos..the velobase example is 7 spd ,as others have stated and the later model was for 8 - 9 spd...I am someone who has had no problem with the synchro 2 indexing once set up for 7 spds ,one bike is set up with the earlier athena model and one the chorus ab model
02-08-12, 12:14 AM
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For friction systems you can use pretty much any decent derailleur... don't have an Athena kicking around as all I have is much older stuff which also works great on friction systems as his is what it was designed for.
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that would be 1996 I believe...95 was the last year sans logos..the velobase example is 7 spd ,as others have stated and the later model was for 8 - 9 spd...I am someone who has had no problem with the synchro 2 indexing once set up for 7 spds ,one bike is set up with the earlier athena model and one the chorus ab model
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