"icebike" <
[email protected]> wrote in message
news:21596e42-1cf7-481e-92ba-c4258366cb78@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>I seem to remember that Sachs had an 80's (or 90's) gruppo that had
> Campagnolo-made brifters, but they were made to be compatible with
> their own derailleurs and also with Shimano 8-speed systems. Anyone
> remember the name of the Sachs gruppo, and whether my memory is
> correct regarding the Shimano compatibility?
Sachs New Success. Made by Campagnolo for Sachs from around 1993 to 1999.
I have a set of these shifters. They are not Shimano derailleur compatible,
and it has nothing to do with the minor difference between 4.8 and 5.0mm cog
spacing. They are just fundamentally not compatible with Shimano
derailleurs due to differences in derailleur actuation ratio. They are not
compatible with Campy derailleurs either.
They are compatible with Sachs New Success derailleurs - work immediately
and perfectly right out of the box.
With regards to the claims that these are Shimano derailleur compatible, and
there are two possibilities here:
- Sachs changed their shifters and derailleurs later in the 1990s to be
Shimano cable pull compatible, and I have the older version.
- Or the folks that claim these shifters work with Shimano are simply used
to a misadjusted drivetrain that constantly randomly jumps back and forth
across the rear cogs