How do I change gear????

terence8888 said:

Hello,

Just got to biking after 15 years not having a bike. Just bought a bike over the net but... BOY everything's changed!!!! How do I change gear on these clever Campy gear levers?

The last bike I had had levers on the frame not at the handle bar!!!!

Thanks in advance in answering this idiotic question!

<http://www.campagnolo.com/techinfo.php?did=f>

then click internal link for Ergopower instruction sheet - 11/03

I figured it out by fiddling around with it... thanks! It WAS an idiotic question!

Well done for buying Campy. Ergolevers are the best functional and aesthetic levers on the market. And they come from the home of cycling. There is another, Japanese brand available, but it looks like spacejunk and is functionally inferior to Campagnolo. You will note that Ergolevers allow you to brake and change gears at the same time with absolute confidence and control. Also, they allow you to change multiple gears in one sweep of the lever, and even to change front and rear gears at the same time. Bella!

The easiest way to remember the shifing pattern for Ergolevers is as follows: when you are looking down on the lever, whether the left or right lever, you always move the shifter in the direction you want the chain to move (this of course follows the beautiful simplicity and inherent logic of all Campy components).

For example, with the left lever, you shift the lever behind the brake lever to the right to shift the chain from the smaller chainring to the larger chainring (and conversely with the thumb shifter).

For the rear derailleur, you shift the thumb shifter to the right to shift from a lower gear (bigger sprocket) to a higher gear (smaller sprocket) and conversely you shift the lever behind the brake lever to the left to shift from a higher gear to a lower gear.

Best of luck.

Cheers

Matt N said:

There is another, Japanese brand available, but it looks like spacejunk and is functionally inferior to Campagnolo.

You could start a war here :o

Japenese = Samurai/ninjas = tuff [censored]

Italian = Soft girly men who wear loafers

Shimano = US Postal/T Mobile top teams in the peleton

Latest bikes at the trade shows, even Italians finest frame producers dree the bikes in Japenese junk🙂

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Matt N said:

Well done for buying Campy. Ergolevers are the best functional and aesthetic levers on the market. And they come from the home of cycling. There is another, Japanese brand available, but it looks like spacejunk and is functionally inferior to Campagnolo. You will note that Ergolevers allow you to brake and change gears at the same time with absolute confidence and control. Also, they allow you to change multiple gears in one sweep of the lever, and even to change front and rear gears at the same time. Bella!

The easiest way to remember the shifing pattern for Ergolevers is as follows: when you are looking down on the lever, whether the left or right lever, you always move the shifter in the direction you want the chain to move (this of course follows the beautiful simplicity and inherent logic of all Campy components).

For example, with the left lever, you shift the lever behind the brake lever to the right to shift the chain from the smaller chainring to the larger chainring (and conversely with the thumb shifter).

For the rear derailleur, you shift the thumb shifter to the right to shift from a lower gear (bigger sprocket) to a higher gear (smaller sprocket) and conversely you shift the lever behind the brake lever to the left to shift from a higher gear to a lower gear.

Best of luck.

Cheers

Wow! I'm always surprised by the "brand loyalty" by some people. Do you work for Campagnolo? I mean yeah, Campy makes some really damn nice stuff but Shimano stuff works pretty damn good too. Good enough to win 5 TdF's in a row! It's like the Ford/Chevy fued to me. I just don't get it.

Incidentally, how do you access the Campy thumb shifter from the drops? With Shimano it's always big lever for bigger cog and small lever for smaller cog (true for front or rear) both levers can be accessed from the drops.