What Happened to Campagnolo?

[ChromeChainstay]

Have you bought a new car lately? I think I heard that (in USA) the average cost of a new car/truck is $49,000 and poised for a big tariff increase.

a new Toyota Corolla, you'd have to break down the bike etc.. is 26-29,000$ in the usa. Suv's Honda, Toyota are 50-55,000$ and you can stick the whole bike in. We have cheap Petrol though • relatively typing.

wireless Shimano 13spd XTR der. shown yesterday and it looks pretty much like an average der.

Campagnolo's model is abhorrent

 

[georges1]

a new Toyota Corolla, you'd have to break down the bike etc.. is 26-29,000$ in the usa. Suv's Honda, Toyota are 50-55,000$ and you can stick the whole bike in. We have cheap Petrol though • relatively typing.

wireless Shimano 13spd XTR der. shown yesterday and it looks pretty much like an average der.

Campagnolo's model is abhorrent

New XTR with 11-12speed looks ugly and not as solid and reliable as the old one. Campagnolo line of products past 2005 look horrible, isn't reliable and is of mediocre quality.

 

[bikeworkshop]

Truth is:
It's not aimed at us any more.

So no wonder we think its ugly.

New XTR with 11-12speed looks ugly and not as solid and reliable as the old one. Campagnolo line of products past 2005 look horrible, isn't reliable and is of mediocre quality.

Works a lot better though

 

[paton]

 

[jim haseltine]

I have had to move to UT crank sets on a couple of bikes and the factory setup isn't great. Use of the Hirth joint is a great idea but the wave-washer positioning of the LH bearing is seriously Mickey Mouse - it's almost like they were finalizing the design on a Friday afternoon before a long vacation and just said "F@ck it - just use a spring washer. It'll be fine".

The only UT bike I use (a winter training/utility/hack - the other I've not finished building) has developed a creak - every left pedal stroke, it creaks. Originally I thought it was the sole of my shoe rubbing on the pedal platform but no, it's the left bearing moving in the cup - it'll take some fiddling to work out a way to stop it. I don't want to face the same issue on the other bike so it's now got a Record Titanium square tape cartridge fitted like my Colnago has.