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Question for 9sp Campag users

  • 21-01-2012 10:56pm
    #1
    doozerie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,830 ✭✭✭


    Can any user of 9-speed Campag answer a quick question for me - on the left lever, when you've thumb-shifted all the way down to the small chainring , does the thumb shifter refuse to move when you push it again (as is the case with 11-speed shifters), or does it actually move/rock with a click?

    I haven't spent enough time on my bike recently to be able to recall the answer to that question and I've just rebuilt the lever (fitted new index springs). The thumb shifter is now behaving as per the second option above and I'm trying to figure out whether I need to take it apart again to correct something. I suspect it's behaving as it should/did before (especially as the mechanism is relatively straightforward and I'm struggling to think of how a mistake in rebuilding it would result in this particular version of wrong behaviour) but rebuilding it has been a bit of a battle* and I'm starting to think it has devised a new way of defeating me.

    *Rebuild process/battle: Put parts together. Pre-tension spring. Reach for bolt to hold it all together and duck as the pre-tensioned spring flys through the air. Retrieve spring from next door neighbour's garden. Repeat but this time hold pre-tensioned spring down with soft fleshy finger tip. Reach for bolt. Scream. Retrieve spring from neighbour's garden again and seek immediate medical attention for perforated finger. Repeat. Etc.


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  • #2
    victorcarrera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,059 ✭✭✭victorcarrera


    I have an older Campag Mirage 9sp (circa 1995).
    It moves down the same distance but without the click and is restored upwards by the spring tension and the right hand shifter is the same.
    The front shifter is indexed in much the same way as the rear shifter in that it will take 3 or 4 clicks to change rings and very handy for trimming. Are you sure you are on the last click? Loosen the cable completely and do the same test just to be sure.


  • #3
    doozerie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,830 ✭✭✭doozerie


    Thanks. My right lever moves but doesn't click, the same as both of yours, so my left lever differs from my right lever as well as from both of yours. Hmm, that doesn't seem to bode well :(


  • #4
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    victorcarrera wrote: »
    I have an older Campag Mirage 9sp (circa 1995).
    It moves down the same distance but without the click and is restored upwards by the spring tension and the right hand shifter is the same.
    The front shifter is indexed in much the same way as the rear shifter in that it will take 3 or 4 clicks to change rings and very handy for trimming. Are you sure you are on the last click? Loosen the cable completely and do the same test just to be sure.

    Ditto for the 9sp Xenon triple. Was wondering why multiple clicks are required to change rings at the front, trimming huh? Here was me thinking it was something wrong with my set-up, expecting three index positions for three chain rings.


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