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Old 07-30-06 | 06:02 AM
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From: SK, Canada

Bikes: Trek 5000, Rocky Mountain Wedge, GT Karakoram K2, Litespeed Tuscany

Originally Posted by LittleGinseng
As I type this I'm looking at 7 different inserts. Three are for 7-speed and 4 are for 6-speed.

When Syncro I was introduced, the inserts were color coded black, red, white, yellow, and blue/green. Each color corresponded to a certain derailleur/freewheel/chain combination.

Things got a bit more simplified(yeah, whatever!) with Syncro II. Each insert was stamped with a letter and a number, of which there were 3 types each for 6 and 7 speed combinations.

Six-speed:
Record,Super Record,Victory/Triomphe, and Croce D'Aune all used a 6V(yellow?)insert.
Chorus used either an A6(red) or B6(white) insert. I don't know the differentiation for these two

Seven-speed:
Record,Super Record,Victory/Triomphe, and Croce D'Aune all used a 7V(color?).
Chorus used either an A7(green) or B7(black), differentiation unknown.

For a while I used the B7 in combo with a Chorus derailleur/Regina America 7 freewheel/SRAM PC68 chain.
Shifting was satisfactory at best. Then I switched out the Syncro for some plain old C-Record friction shifters and was more than pleased. Sometimes simpler is just better.
If that was the case I would just put 05 Record Shifter/Brake levers on this bike, but there is something about having the much malinged Campy Syncros system that sort of functions for me It's about having the period with it's good and bad.
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