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2015 Campagnolo Groupset details released

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  • #2
    krissovo
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    The ability to change from a double to a compact by changing the rings is a nice touch. Chainset is ugly as sin though, hopefully athena down is still pretty.


  • #3
    Craig06
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    krissovo wrote: »
    The ability to change from a double to a compact by changing the rings is a nice touch. Chainset is ugly as sin though, hopefully athena down is still pretty.

    Exactly what the shimano dura ace and ultegra cranks can do.


  • #4
    Z_a_x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭Z_a_x


    I think the new cranks will grow on me, C-Record cranks raised a few eyebrows in their day and now regarded as one of the best looking groupsets ever.
    Has anyone ridden the 2015 Chorus Mechanical yet? I think it might be the groupset for bike n+1 .


  • #5
    laraghrider
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    Having never used campy I have a question for those that do. The things sticking out on the inside are thumb shifters right? Are they supplemental/satellite shifters or are they the down shifters ala Shimano Sora for about 6 years back?


  • #6
    letape
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    laraghrider wrote: »
    Having never used campy I have a question for those that do. The things sticking out on the inside are thumb shifters right? Are they supplemental/satellite shifters or are they the down shifters ala Shimano Sora for about 6 years back?

    They are for shifting down the cassette and from the outer chainring to the inner one. This is the same design that Campagnolo has used since they introduced their first generation Ergopower levers in 1991/1992.

    On their upper models you can shift down 5 sprockets at once by fully depressing the lever. On Campagnolo levers the outer lever is for braking only and not braking / chainging gear.

    I expect that sora levers feel and operate nothing like these.


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  • #7
    Plastik
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    They're the downshifters but there's no problem reaching them from the drops, unlike the Shimano version.


  • #8
    laraghrider
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    Plastik wrote: »
    They're the downshifters but there's no problem reaching them from the drops, unlike the Shimano version.

    Yeah that's what I was thinking. I remember being on a bike a few years back with Sora and you couldn't reach the down shifter in the drops which was a pain.

    So it is as I though but obviously I wasn't comparing SR or that with Sora.


  • #9
    bcmf
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    I have a feeling that Campy will be going fully electronic with maybe the exception of Chorus an Record/SR.
    I asked a bike shop recently if they could get me a set of silver Veloce shifters and the shop was told by the main distributor that there was none to be had and no date for restocking.
    Looking on Geoffrey Butler cycles and under 2015 shifters was the EPS version of Veloce.


  • #10
    Chips Lovell
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    Are you sure it's EPS. I know for 2015, they've adopted the same style thumb button as EPS for Athena and Veloce, but it's still mechanical.


  • #11
    bcmf
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    Oscar Gateaux wrote: »
    Are you sure it's EPS. I know for 2015, they've adopted the same style thumb button as EPS for Athena and Veloce, but it's still mechanical.

    Nope not sure but it looked very EPS'y alright. So maybe that's what it is.

    Buzzkill.


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  • #12
    letape
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    bcmf wrote: »
    I have a feeling that Campy will be going fully electronic with maybe the exception of Chorus an Record/SR.
    I asked a bike shop recently if they could get me a set of silver Veloce shifters and the shop was told by the main distributor that there was none to be had and no date for restocking.
    Looking on Geoffrey Butler cycles and under 2015 shifters was the EPS version of Veloce.

    There is no Veloce eps and I don't believe there will be an eps version of any model below chorus available anytime soon. Athena is no longer available in eps form - only mechanical from 2015.

    I think at some point they may do away with mechanical versions of the higher end groupsets (SR & R) but they definitely will not do away with the mechanical versions of the lower end ones.


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