Shimano/Campag Crank Compatability

Hi Axeman
I've got a couple of lightly used Italian thread Octalink BBs in the loft
and will send one out FOC if you give me an address if that helps.
Also, I run a couple of older Colnago steel frames road bikes with It BBs
and have happily run Ultegra 9sp shifters, mechs etc with an 8sp block and a
Campag Centaur 9sp triple crank. I'm also in the process of changing a 9sp
Dura-ace crankset over to a Campag 10sp compact which seems to work fine.
The new type Campag Ultra Torque compact cranks look rather good and I'll
probably swap the rather old triple crank for one of those soon too.
Be happy to be told otherwise by you Campag experts if this advice is
theoretically wrong but it works for me.....
Neil
"Axeman" <sashan(nospam)@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

A question for you guru's out there.

Earlier in the year I had an accident with a car whilst riding my Orbea
road bike (not my fault). After much screwing around, I have finally been
paid for the replacement value of the Orbea (frame is cracked, I loved
that frame), plus I get to keep the damaged bike. The bike was running an
Ultegra 9spd groupset. The shifters were trashed in the accident, but I
have purchased new Ultegra 10-speed shifters, and the bike already had a
10spd rear derailler. Most of the groupset survived unscathed as did the
wheels.

Anyway, I have obtained from a friend a nice 4 year old Olmo alloy frame,
and was thinking about using the old parts off the Orbea to build the Olmo
into a training bike.

Trouble is that I cannot use the 9spd Ultegra Octalink bottom bracket from
the Orbea, as the Orbea uses an English thread BB whilst the Olmo uses an
Italian thread. What's more, I seem to be having trouble finding a
retailer that has an Octalink BB in Italian thread here in Oztralia, and
none of the usual online retailers in OZ seem to have them either.

So I was thinking of buying a used Campag crank/bottom bracket set (say
Centaur or Chorus level) off Ebay to overcome this problem, or perhaps
even an FSA set. My question is, would a Campag 9 or 10 speed crankset be
compatible with a 10 speed Ultegra shifter/derailler/chain combination? As
it's only going to be a training bike, would prefer not to invest the
funds in a new Ultegra 10spd crank.

Thanks for any advice.

Axeman

Axeman (nospam) said:

A question for you guru's out there.

Earlier in the year I had an accident with a car whilst riding my Orbea road
bike (not my fault). After much screwing around, I have finally been paid
for the replacement value of the Orbea (frame is cracked, I loved that
frame), plus I get to keep the damaged bike. The bike was running an Ultegra
9spd groupset. The shifters were trashed in the accident, but I have
purchased new Ultegra 10-speed shifters, and the bike already had a 10spd
rear derailler. Most of the groupset survived unscathed as did the wheels.

Anyway, I have obtained from a friend a nice 4 year old Olmo alloy frame,
and was thinking about using the old parts off the Orbea to build the Olmo
into a training bike.

Trouble is that I cannot use the 9spd Ultegra Octalink bottom bracket from
the Orbea, as the Orbea uses an English thread BB whilst the Olmo uses an
Italian thread. What's more, I seem to be having trouble finding a retailer
that has an Octalink BB in Italian thread here in Oztralia, and none of the
usual online retailers in OZ seem to have them either.

So I was thinking of buying a used Campag crank/bottom bracket set (say
Centaur or Chorus level) off Ebay to overcome this problem, or perhaps even
an FSA set. My question is, would a Campag 9 or 10 speed crankset be
compatible with a 10 speed Ultegra shifter/derailler/chain combination?

Yes, no problem..plug and play-

As

Quoted message said:

it's only going to be a training bike, would prefer not to invest the funds
in a new Ultegra 10spd crank.

Thanks for any advice.

Axeman