Krash
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My friend says his older Campy 9 speed hub accepts Shimano cassettes and uses the same spacing. Can this be true?
Why, you may ask, would I want to mix Shimano and Campagnolo? Won't the earth stop turning? I have an old bike that's Campy but my Calfee is Dura-Ace. I'd like to build a wheel that can be used by both.
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Lon
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The cassettes won't interchange due to the shape/spline. However they can be made to shift one another. Mechanics tell me you should stick to one if you can so build the wheel for the Shimano and fiddle if you must.
Chris King rode 9 speed Campy and a Shimano cassette and possibly still does. His hubs are Shimano only.
My experience is putting a Campy wheel and cassette on my D/A bike and taking a test ride. It shifted just fine with no adjustment. I wasn't banging it around since it was a test ride.
Have fun.
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Dave_Thompson
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Krash wrote:
My friend says his older Campy 9 speed hub accepts Shimano cassettes and uses the same spacing. Can this be true?
Why, you may ask, would I want to mix Shimano and Campagnolo? Won't the earth stop turning? I have an old bike that's Campy but my Calfee is Dura-Ace. I'd like to build a wheel that can be used by both.
He may have meant that a Campy equipped bike will shift a Shimano rear wheel and cassette, which is true.
Like Lon said, a Shimano cassette will not fit on Campy splines, or vis-versa.
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Lon
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We either have the exact same number of posts (unlikely) or we were frozen at 463 and our designation of Sage. Maybe we should "play" that number!
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Dave_Thompson
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Krash wrote:
Why, you may ask, would I want to mix Shimano and Campagnolo? Won't the earth stop turning? I have an old bike that's Campy but my Calfee is Dura-Ace. I'd like to build a wheel that can be used by both.
Probably the main the reason for the fairly large interest in the Campy/Shimano mixing is because of the tremendous number of Shimano rear wheels that are available, often quite inexpensively.
At one time I purchased a Campy equipped Merlin and had more that a few Shimano compatible wheelsets laying around. Many replied to my "can Shimano rear wheels be shifted successfully with Campy dérailleurs?" question, and the answers were all affirmative.
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Dave_Thompson
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Lon wrote:
We either have the exact same number of posts (unlikely) or we were frozen at 463 and our designation of Sage. Maybe we should "play" that number!
Lon: We have to quit meeting like this. My wife is becoming suspicious!
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Lon
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Mine is jealous of my bike shop owner! I told her it could be worse...
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