DISRAELI GEARS
In the late 1980s and early 1990s Campagnolo produced a bewildering array of derailleurs that all looked extremely similar. This poses the perfect puzzle for derailleur geeks who can endlessly debate exactly which is what.
This derailleur is a challenge to all Campagnolo archaeologists. What do we know about it?
A correspondent, who knows much more about Campagnolo than I do, claims to recognise it as an early example of the Croce d'Aune version of this drop parallelogram design. This makes a kind of sense as the specification seems slightly superior to a Chorus (see the cable clamp nut and the pulley wheels), but slightly inferior to a Record (with the steel inner parallelogram plate).
However another, also knowledgeable, correspondent maintains that the Croce d'Aune of this era always had an aluminium rear parallelogram plate and pulley wheels with plain bearings - and I have certainly seen examples of Croce d'Aunes that prove that this was the case - at least for some Croce d'Aunes.
It's all deliciously fascinating but utterly unimportant - and I am going to plump for the idea that it is a Croce d'Aune.
A list of relevant details might include:
Browse associated documents.
Campagnolo instructions - 7225068 (Syncro recommendation)
Campagnolo instructions - 7225068 (Syncro recommendation)
Campagnolo instructions - 7225073 (7 & 8-speed adjustment screw)
Campagnolo instructions - 7225073 (7 & 8-speed adjustment screw)