Originally Posted by
Dean51
Hey Andy.... Dean in Port Angeles here! I can't offer much help in the extremes to which a Campy SR RD can accommodate other than to tell you that I ran one with 52-41 chainrings and a 13-26 freewheel on my Cooper. Old legs and hills I like to ride were driving me to a 32 tooth cog in the rear. As I recall, I could not get the SR to clear the 32 even with the rear axle located at the rear of the dropouts of my Cooper. I don't recall anything about the chain wrap. I went down the path of the Soma long cage swap. It worked, but I totally agree with you that it did not look right. In the end, I chose to replace the SR RD with a Suntour Cyclone GT with a black hanger. In my view, it looks much like the Campy RD, handles the 32 with ease, and shifts great. The SR RD is boxed up....safekeeping for a future owner.
'Hope to see you again someday on the north end of the Olympic Peninsula!
Dean
One of the luxuries of having a ridiculous number of bikes is that I can have a few like this that are suboptimal in some respect. My goal here is to get the gearing low enough that this will be comfortable to ride on rolling hills. I'm a terrible climber (heavy and weak) so this wouldn't cut it in your neck of the woods, but it'll do for most of the hills in my local area.
BTW, here's why I have to keep it all Campy:
Even the triple is blasphemous enough.