On Apr 1, 9:31 pm, "Sir Ridesalot" <
[email protected]> wrote:
> I noticed that Campy no longer makes a front derailleur that will fit
> a 28.? steel seat tube. Pity that. Does any one know where a 28.?
> Campy derailleur clamp can be purchased?
Ebay.
If you can find just about any Campy FD made in the last decade, you
can pop off the circlip (or unscrew the allen bolt for the higher-end
ones), slide the rest of the mech off of the clamp-side pivots and
swap them around. I've got a 28.6 clamp that came with a Xenon Triple
front, that I then put a Veloce 9-speed triple on that I got cheap
because itr came with a 35mm clamp. That mech broke in a freakish way
unrelated to the clamp, so I then humg a 10speed Veloce triple on it,
and I'm using that on my touring bike to this day.
Barring that, get a Braze-on adapter clamp. They range anywhere from
$2.50 to about $15, and do not need to be made by Campy, since theirs
only come in 32 & 25 anyway. I got one at Nashbar 'cause it was $2.50,
and I don't even need it right now. But with three steel bikes, it
seemed like a good thing to have in the toolbox just in case.