catatonic

Well today my deraileur was rubbing the chain again, so during my lunch break I chose to work on it instead of eat....I got it tunes right, then I had to shift back into gear....going from center to large...CRACK!

Well...at that point I knew who the bell tolls for...mr 105 left brifter...

...this makes me mad...I haven't even had it for a year yet. However it was kinda amusing how fast I removed the chain, used my leatherman to cut the front deraileur cable at the downtube stops, and yanked that FD off...got the bike ridable in about 5 mins.


Oh well, I guess this is a big reason to do my campy conversion this weekend...if my freaking camera arrives so I can take pics....I still want a before, after, and during set.

RiDE

Wow how do you do that? I can pretty much work on the bike myself, but I just started getting better with derailleurs... even as a noob I don't think I've managed to do anything to destroy my shifter.

I think you just wanted an excuse to 'upgrade'.

CPcyclist

Welcome to the light we will forgive you for using SH>>>>>

BTW what campy are you geting for your bike to be born again with?

SteveE

Same thing happened to me on Saturday. I was halfway through my ride when my Campy Record left-side upshift lever broke, leaving me in the 42-tooth chainring for the rest of the ride.

I called several bike shops; only one had the replacement part but no time to make repairs. Some other bike shops couldn't commit to the emergency repairs, either. Of course, this was on the bike I wanted to ride the Sequoia Century on. So I ended up buying the replacement lever ($24) and proceeded to fix it myself. Finally, about 3 hours and frayed nerves later, I had my shifter working again and was able to do the century on the bike I wanted to ride.

Talking to the mechanic at the bike shop, he felt the lever broke as a result of an earlier crash which weakened it and after 12 months it finally broke.

catatonic

So far I have the following campy parts, I'm going to keep the shimano brakes for a while, the 105 hubs, as well as possibly the shimano downtube stops (if the campy ones don't fit, as I have true shifter braze-ons).

This is all 10-sp
Cables (2 sets in case I screw up)
Wipperman Nickel Plated Chain
Campy Centaur double cranks
Chorus Carbon R DErailleur
CHorus BB
Chorus Ergolevers
EIther Record or Chorus Carbon FD, depending on availbility (Turns out I'm blind and the F der was 31.8, not 28.6)
American Classic adapter cassette (11-23)

Overall I think it will make for a rather nice flatlands bike

As far as crashes, none on that bike...but I do think this may be an effect of the manhandling of my bike that Continental did during my move here. Sadly the waiver protects them from this...but oh well, they lost a rather good customer, I'll go some other carrier for my travels from now on. It was after that flight that I had shifting problems on the front...I thought it was the deraileur bumped out of place...and with how much the only two shops I knew the location of charged, I refused to take it in, figuring new brifters would cost as much as their service charges.

CPcyclist

nice bit a big step from 105.

catatonic

yep, I'm about to get the F Deraileur and some SPD pedals from performance to finish it off.

I picked the Centaur cranks since I tend to rub the heck out of my cranks, so no point in having record if I'm just going to mar the heck out of them....plus from my understanding, Record, Chorus, and Centaur all use the same Chainrings ...that and I got them as a pull from a new bike on EBay for $40

ivan_yulaev

Mmm, thank god for downtube levers. The front der will never break (ever) and the rear can always be put into friction mode if the sis fails.

dean_550

Oh brother

Don't turn this thread into that crap.

cs1

At least when a Campy goes down, it's rebuildable. ShimaNo's aren't even good for parts. 105's have way too much plastic in them to be reliable. If you have to have ShimaNo, try barcons. They aren't cool but they never break.


Tim

operator

No but campy stuff is rebuildable, shimano tells you to replace the unit. Fact.

catatonic

Well I chose to finish it off with a record carbon FD, and some Ritchey V4 pedals.

Given the Ritchey pedals are pretty fugly, but I wanted a good pedal that works with SPD "casual" mountain shoes...and I haven't had enough convincing on if frogs were right for me, so here we go...plus I've had good experience with ritchey components on my mountain bike, so why not.

dean_550

I'm not disputing that fact, but how many people here with Campy units actually end up rebuilding them?
I know a couple myself, but that group is a minority.

I don't have a problem with people recommending parts because they're a better value, but when it's accompanied by the usual fanboyism remark of "ShimaNO" or "Campy snob", I don't know if I can take any of their future advice seriously.