My memory of this derailleur (although I have a similar memory about Zeus!) goes something like this:
- Galli were stung into action when Campagnolo released the restyled Super Record in 1980. This suddenly made their existing offering look ‘rough’ and out of date.
- Their response was this, very polished, design. I regret their move away from straight lines and logical adjustment screws, and see this ‘new’ design as a step backwards in everything put finish and logo. I do like the fact that you can take it apart, although, as is often the case, you have to love circlips.
- This design did not appear until about 1984(?), just in time for Campagnolo to launch their radically redesigned C-Record groupset (and derailleur).
- This probably helped Galli (and Zeus) because road cyclists were very conservative and many were appalled by the look, weight and complexity of C-Record. These cyclists warmed to Galli’s new, very retro design, with its traditional Campagnolo style adjustment screws.
- Of course it couldn’t last - and it didn’t.
This black version weighs a very respectable 184g. In terms of the variables that seem to define these later 'curvaceous' Galli models, this example has:
- the text on the outer parallelogram plate written vertically,
- an aluminium P pivot bolt,
- a simple inner pulley cage plate, without a spoke deflector,
- a conventional stop controlling the rotation of the pulley cage.
- Derailleur brands: Galli
- Themes: Ultra-lightweight - road racing models
- Country: Italy
- Date of introduction: 1984?
- Date of this example: unknown
- Model no.: unknown
- Weight: 184g
- Maximum cog: 26 teeth? (Sutherland’s 4th edition)?
- Total capacity: 22 teeth? (Sutherland’s 4th edition)?
- Pulley centre to centre: 46mm
- Index compatibility: friction
- Chain width: 3/32”
- Logic: top normal
- B pivot: unsprung
- P pivot: sprung
- Materials: aluminium including the sprung pivot bolt (?) and pulley pivot bolts