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10-05-20 | 04:50 PM

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cyccommute

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Originally Posted by madpogue

Without a braze-on, a band like that will slip even if it's slightly loose, not "very, very". Even with the band pretty tight, when the derailleur seizes up, and you pull the lever, guess what happens.

Not in my experience. I have personally owned many bikes with that kind of band and worked on, literally, hundreds more. The clamp on the shifter doesn’t shift even when you are pulling on the lever to shift gears. The action of moving the levers cause more of a twisting action than the lower clamp will ever experience.

There is another Campania for sale that has the same heart shaped stop but the heart is oriented 180° to noobinsf’s bike. I still doubt that the function of the stop is to keep the clamp from sliding and is only meant for positioning.

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