> When Campagnolo ran out of those castings, they just put the longer cages on > a standard Nuovo > Record body.
Unless my particular derailleur was actually missing a component, I think this is where mine went wrong. My set up must have put more torque where the cage attached to the body then it was designed to accommodate. After a few shifts, the cage pulled right off the body. The Shimano deer-head Deore I placed on after the wreck works wonderfully. On Dec 8, 9:07 am, Jan Heine <hein...@earthlink.net> wrote: > The Campagnolo Rally isn't really a great design, but it can work very > well with the right chain and freewheel combination. I had one on my > touring bike for years. It worked great with a 7-speed Dura-Ace > freewheel with the twisted teeth and a 7-speed Sedisport chain. When I > switched to a Regina 5-speed freewheel and 5-speed Regina chain, the > shifting was terrible, perhaps the worst I've ever experienced on a > bike. > > It's funny that the first generation, which Eric bought, had the nice > drop parallelogram and special upper pivot. When Campagnolo ran out of > those castings, they just put the longer cages on a standard Nuovo > Record body. It appears that Campagnolo's commitment to cyclotouring > never ran very deep. (Eric's actually is the best of them all, as it > has the reinforcing rib on the upper casting, which prevents it from > cracking in half.) > > Jan Heine > Editor > Bicycle Quarterly > 2116 Western Ave. > Seattle WA 98121http://www.bikequarterly.com > > Follow our blog athttp://janheine.wordpress.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
