Long cage Super Record mech’

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

You’re not using 70s/80s Campag for its shifting prowess are you.

Amen brother

 

[ferrus]

No derailleur works better on the mantelpiece than a Campa

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

@ferrus that said the Chorus on my 753 Peugeot was beautiful (until I had to stop or change gear) The rest (hubs, headset, b/b, chainset, pedals) was superb

 

[ferrus]

You knows it mate. Ineffectual brakes and clunky shifting is a worthy price for the beauty and the bearings

 

[vcballbat]

Here’s a fairly uncommon SR with alum bolts, released during a supply shortage in Ti:

Vintage Campagnolo Super Record Rear Derailleur 2nd Gen 1979 Rare Alloy Bolt | eBay

<p>In 1979 a shortage of pure titanium sourced from Russia made Campagnolo have to produce his top end titanium parts in aluminium alloy. This only happened at the end of 79 and early 1980. Hence there were limited numbers of these pat 79 super record rear derrailleurs produced with alloy bolts...

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This bloke thinks his chromed bolt version is super-rare and has priced it accordingly. I don’t know anything about this oddity -

Rare Campagnolo Super Record Derailleur NIB Very UNUSUAL Chrome Bolt Mod 1 Off? | eBay

Super Record. Classic and Modern. if we don't have it, you don't need it. Not a bootleg -. from the past 100 years. Plus an unmatched Collection of Parts & Accessories. • The finishing touch for that classic machine.

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Those don't look like chrome bolts, that's the alloy bolt version you mentioned earlier. I have this one in my collection as well

 

[ferrus]

That’s quite a rare mech as those bolts were never used on any other model. I think you’re right about the ‘chromed bolt’ eBay one, they definitely do look alum’ as well.

 

[ferrus]

I’ve had reasonable success with a Nuovo Record fitted with Rally cage on a 30 T cog.

This is not correct. Apologies @pigman. It would have been a 28 T with the long cage NR (on an MKM tourer, Campag dropouts)
The 30 T was with a 1st gen Rally on an ancient MTB. The dropped parallelogram probably helped, I can’t remember what type dropouts.

 

[ferrus]

Interesting fact, at some point in 1984 Campag ran out of ‘Rally’ faceplates so some were released with Nuovo Record ones instead. People always insist these were just bodged together, aftermarket, from Rally and NR parts, but then I saw one pictured in a Japanese Campag catalogue. Someone on Velobase mentions buying one new in its box BITD.

In case anyone cares - here’s one of those Rally’s with the Nuovo Record parallelogram plate:

https://flic.kr/p/fN3hgh

https://flic.kr/p/fMKFqn

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

In case anyone cares - here’s one of those Rally’s with the Nuovo Record parallelogram plate:

https://flic.kr/p/fN3hgh

https://flic.kr/p/fMKFqn

They must be hen's teeth in rocking horse poop

 

[ferrus]

I don’t think they’re all that rare as I’ve seen at least five now, and have one (NOS but not boxed) in the collection. That’s why I started to suspect they were a factory release, but everyone I mentioned this to scoffed at the suggestion!

Campagnolo are fascinating and frustrating to collect and study - so many slight variations and anomalies which haven’t always featured in their brochures