Steev

Due to injury I am unable to rotate my right wrist far enough to shift my Campy equipped road bike, so I've been toying with the idea of trying to shift the rear with the left shifter in a sort of ratcheted friction mode. Anyone ever tried such an arrangement? I expect the ratchet stops will mean the RD will not quite line up right sometimes but I can live with that. I'm wondering if there will be enough cable pull to move the RD far enough to shift across 9 cogs. I have some Shimano RD's around so I could try using that for a different pull ratio if the full Campy set-up won't cut it.
I could go with bar-ends or some such, but the Campy stuff is already on there so it will be a no cost option if it would work. I don't want to go fixed or single speed as we have plenty of hills.
What are your thoughts on this?

ultraman6970

HI... The travel in the left brifter and the right one are MAYBE different but probably it will work for 6 or 7 cogs. What about switch the brifters from left to right? and right to left? Just a pretty dumb idea but will it is almost 2am

thanks.

Steev

The problem with putting the rear on the right is that the lever will swing outwards to move to a larger cog, a very awkward movement. It did occur to me to swap the indexing barrels, but that would involve stripping both shifters and re-building and it still may not work.

vasracer

If your having problems with your wrist have you ever considered going with a flat bar and a trigger shifter system? Campy makes an excellent pair of shifter/brake levers for flat bar set ups that will work with road brakes and the rear derailluer.

https://www.nashbar.com/profile.cfm?c...s%20%2D%20Road

nitropowered

https://www.campyonly.com/howto/lefthandshifting.html

I've never done it, but its possible

Tricycle Blue

A bar-end shifter until your wrist heals?

vpiuva

A one-handed rider here uses the ergo shift for one derailleur, bar end for the other, and has his brake lever operate both brakes with about a 60/40 split (some adjustable deal handles the dual use & split)

Steev

That link to CampyOnly says what I was going to try may well work, thanks.
Hopefully the children will go to sleep early enough for me to try it tonight.
I'm trying to work a solution that will use the shifters as they are rather than solutions that involve having to buy parts or re-tape bars.

Steev

Well, I re-cabled my RD to the left shifter. It moves across all the cogs but one shifter click is not exactly one cog's worth of RD movement. Still it works enough for now, just have to over-shift occasionally.

hhabca

Maybe a slight change to the way the cable is clamped onto the deraileur will make it work better? I'm thinking of what can be done to get Campy shifters to work with Shimano deraileurs.

https://www.hubbub.com/articles_ergopower.html

Maybe a little spacer on the cable near the nut will help?

Where's those friction shifting ergo brifters when you need them?

Good luck with your efforts!

DieselDan

If you are in good with your LBS, have them contact The Hawley Company in Lexington, SC. Hawley is an authorized Campagnolo service center who may be able to do the shifter conversion you're talking about.

Steev

That's more than I care to do. I spent an hour on the trainer last night, except 2 cogs that need a double click to get the change, its working well enough for now. I intend to revert to normal shifting after healing and physio have done their magic. Might do a rebuild on the right shifter while its out of service though.