How well (or poorly?) will my Campy 8-speed front der. shift a 10-speed setup?

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I'm long overdue to upgrade to Ergo, and I'd like to do it as cheaply
as possible. Will there be any major problems with a circa 1990 8-speed
derailleur on a 2005 10-speed setup?

 

[Lee]

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I'm long overdue to upgrade to Ergo, and I'd like to do it as cheaply
> as possible. Will there be any major problems with a circa 1990 8-speed
> derailleur on a 2005 10-speed setup?
>

Have you paid the 10 speed upgrade fee to Campagnolo yet? If not, you can't
do it.

Lee

 

[David L. Johnson]

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 11:17:09 -0700, a.b.patrick wrote:

> I'm long overdue to upgrade to Ergo, and I'd like to do it as cheaply
> as possible. Will there be any major problems with a circa 1990 8-speed
> derailleur on a 2005 10-speed setup?

A Campy Ergo shifter will shift any front derailleur. It's not indexed in
the front.

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[[email protected]]

Thanks. I'm not worried about the indexing, but rather about sloppy
shifting from a very wide front-derailleur. I haven't measured but it
seems to be quite a bit wider than the 10-speed derailleur on my other
bike.

 

[Paul Slavchenko]

I did just the same thing this spring. In my opinion, the front derailleur
shifts the narrow chain just fine.

Paul

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I'm long overdue to upgrade to Ergo, and I'd like to do it as cheaply
> as possible. Will there be any major problems with a circa 1990 8-speed
> derailleur on a 2005 10-speed setup?
>

 

[Qui si parla Campagnolo]

Lee wrote:
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > I'm long overdue to upgrade to Ergo, and I'd like to do it as cheaply
> > as possible. Will there be any major problems with a circa 1990 8-speed
> > derailleur on a 2005 10-speed setup?
> >
>
> Have you paid the 10 speed upgrade fee to Campagnolo yet? If not, you can't
> do it.
>
> Lee

You do that only at mailorder, not a bike shops.

use the front der or any front der for that matter, The superior design
of ERGO allows you to use just about any front derailleur/crank combo.

I have used ERGO shifters on Mavic and even Super Record front ders
with great success

 

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Thanks, and speaking of cranks, will the 8-speed chainrings work or are
they too wide for the chain? If too wide, is the bolt pattern still the
same? The cranks I currently have are the original, Chorus from 1989 or
1990. I don't much like them (they seem to have a very wide Q-factor
compared to newer cranks), so I wouldn't mind swapping them out (except
for the cost of course).

 

[Qui si parla Campagnolo]

[email protected] wrote:
> Thanks, and speaking of cranks, will the 8-speed chainrings work or are
> they too wide for the chain? If too wide, is the bolt pattern still the
> same? The cranks I currently have are the original, Chorus from 1989 or
> 1990. I don't much like them (they seem to have a very wide Q-factor
> compared to newer cranks), so I wouldn't mind swapping them out (except
> for the cost of course).

Use the '8s' rings. rings didn't actually get thinner for 9s and 10s,
they just, in some cases, moved closer together, they didn't get
thinner.

 

[[email protected]]

I just upgraded from a Campy 8s downtube shifters to 10s Ergopower
Centaur thru my LBS. They said I neede new chainrings and a new from
derailleur. I should have checked in here first and saved myself some
money!

 

[Qui si parla Campagnolo]

[email protected] wrote:
> I just upgraded from a Campy 8s downtube shifters to 10s Ergopower
> Centaur thru my LBS. They said I neede new chainrings and a new from
> derailleur. I should have checked in here first and saved myself some
> money!

yup!!
Campagnolo isn't a black art, just bike stuff that 'bicycle shops'
should be educated about.