You obviously can't use one manufacturer's shifters with another's derailleurs, or one manufacturer's rear derailleur with another's cassette; your indexing would be all over the shop if you did. However, I can't immediately think of why you shouldn't use one manufacturer's chainset + BB with another's front derailleur + shifter.
Am I missing something?
Mixing Campag & Shimano
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Re: Mixing Campag & Shimano
Assuming you mean the 'cage' by derailleur - surely you can mix shifters and derailleurs - as the indexing is on the shifter and that relates to the spacing on the cassette. So the cage itself doesn't affect the movement?George wrote:You obviously can't use one manufacturer's shifters with another's derailleurs, or one manufacturer's rear derailleur with another's cassette; your indexing would be all over the shop if you did. However, I can't immediately think of why you shouldn't use one manufacturer's chainset + BB with another's front derailleur + shifter.
Am I missing something?
It's all about the bike.
Thanks for the feedback, everyone; useful food for thought.
The background to this is that (as described elsewhere in embarrassing detail) I went over to a modern Campag chainset and B/B set-up on my best bike at the start of the summer. Now that I've got the alignment sorted, I'm very pleased with the set-up in terms of ride experience, but I'm very displeased with it in terms of serviceability. I'd eventually like to migrate all my bikes to modern outboard bearing B/Bs, but I'm dubious about going with Campag because of the serviceability issues. On the other hand, I don't want to replace the whole drivetrain/shifting set-up on all the bikes. So I'm just mulling over the options.
If only Shimano stuff wasn't so damned ugly.
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The background to this is that (as described elsewhere in embarrassing detail) I went over to a modern Campag chainset and B/B set-up on my best bike at the start of the summer. Now that I've got the alignment sorted, I'm very pleased with the set-up in terms of ride experience, but I'm very displeased with it in terms of serviceability. I'd eventually like to migrate all my bikes to modern outboard bearing B/Bs, but I'm dubious about going with Campag because of the serviceability issues. On the other hand, I don't want to replace the whole drivetrain/shifting set-up on all the bikes. So I'm just mulling over the options.
If only Shimano stuff wasn't so damned ugly.
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