On Friday, March 10, 2017 at 6:27:53 PM UTC-8, John B. wrote:
On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:38:51 -0600, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/10/2017 6:41 PM, John B. wrote:
On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 16:55:00 -0600, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/10/2017 4:04 PM, ixiz wrote:
I only recently found out that there were 2 diameters and about to buy a box (100). I hate to buy the wrong diameter - most of my bikes are campy 9 and 10 speeds and eventually 11.

I am about to purchase a box and split with a friend but unsure which diameter to purchase.

IS there any guides as to which cables are for what models or just get the 1.2mm and call it a day.


Do not- and I cannot emphasize this strongly enough - DO NOT
install not-Campagnolo wires into your Ergo shifters[1].

The gear wire heads of the classic era were small, as
Campagnolo uses still. The revisionist modern larger gear
wire heads (everybody else who makes gear systems) will go
in, pop down inside the lever and only come out with extreme
effort = time = $$$.

[1] Big head wires in classic era downtube shifters are even
harder to remove, an often fatal exercise.

"Fatal" You kill the shifter? The cable? The stupid customer? :-)
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Cheers,

John B.


Guys bring in drilled/crushed/macerated Campagnolo 1013
levers with cable stumps in the remains.

As opposed to clapping your hands with glee and saying, "Yes Sir! Here
we have the newest, upgraded, shifter, that is guaranteed to be
totally idiot proof. Just pass your credit card here for a moment" :-)

A notion apparently first mentioned in print by Thomas Tusser in "Five
Hundreth Pointes of Good Husbandrie", in 1573, the precise wording of
the expression comes just a little later, in Dr. John Bridges' Defence
of the Government of the Church of England, 1587:

"If they pay a penie or two pence more for the reddinesse of them..let
them looke to that, a foole and his money is soone parted."

Had he forgone the purple prose, his books might have been twenty percent shorter in print.