Well, longtime correspondent (and Campy-loving
bike shop mechanic webmaster@campyonly.com has done it again!
Here is his latest list of a few of the reasons those
who work with bikes every day prefer Campagnolo!
"From the home office in
Boynton Beach Florida I have compiled a new top 10
reasons that mechanics like Campy over ShimaNO.
10. Shift and brake cable sets come with the ferrules and
crimp ends.
9. Dual Pivot Brakes have bias adjustment.
8. Campy allows holding brakes with a wrench to position.
ShimaNO has nothing to hold for positioning the brakes.
7. Campy includes serrated washers with brakes to keep
them in position. ShimaNO expects you to buy them or
borrow them from somebody that go a new Campy gruppo.
6. Campy uses a steel bottom bracket cable guide that
lasts forever. ShimaNO uses plastic that cuts cable
grooves and won't shift right.
5. Campy uses cable adjusters that you can turn. Campy's
adjusters are all one machined piece. ShimaNO uses a
cheap bolt with a rubber/plastic cover for an adjuster.
1. The ShimaNO adjuster just spins the
plastic/rubber cap without
turning the adjuster screw (i.e. no adjustment)
2. The adjusters rust to the mount in less than year
(i.e. no
adjustment). The adjusters are cheap steel.
3. Florida sun rots the ShimaNO adjusters off the
bike anyway.
4. Campy riders don't need to carry pliers to adjust
cables.
5. Campy brakes allow the adjusters to slide out of
the
caliper to make disassembly easy for travel.
ShimaNO's are
captive making you remove the crimp cap and making a
mess of
the cable end.
4. Front Ergo levers shift everything from my MTB
24-26-36 to my touring bike 30-42-52 because it can be
shifted in fine steps. Don't even think about it with
ShimaNO.
3. Campy sealed bottom brackets have easy to replace
bearings. ShimaNO sealed units are not serviceable.
2. You can trim the front derailleur with the shifter.
ShimaNO gives you no choice. You get an up shift or a
down shift with not partial shift. The wider ShimaNO cage
dumps the chain on the triple more often and it is a pain
in the butt to set up on short chain stay bikes.
1. Campy uses metal hub seals instead of little plastic
pieces of junk like ShimaNO. Record and Chorus hubs can
be lubed without disassembly. Record gruppo can be fully
lubricated without disassembly including:
1. Front and rear hub lube ports flush debris out
the way it came in
ShimaNO pushes lube and debris into the bearings
together.
2. Cassette pawls and carrier bearings have injection
ports
3. Headset has upper and lower injection points (big
feature to
preserving the life span)
4. Non sealed bearing bottom bracket (remove left
crank bolt and
inject grease)
It is so obvious that Campy has the edge here.
Tim Laflin"
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