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I've got an old Mercian tandem with 3 x 8 sp Campagnolo gears, hub & cassette - does anyone know if its possible to buy either a new Campagnolo 9sp* cassettes with at least 11-26t range that will fit or if not if I can swap the freehub for a Shimano fitting one instead.
The hub must be early 1980's, 40 hole, 140old Campag tandem jobbie
* I've got everything else I need to convert to 9sp shimano
You can get 9spd Veloce cassettes or 9 speed Miche cassettes. The spacing is different to 9 speed shimano though.
simon - thanks I'll give them a search - I read somewhere that the spacing is only slightly different, so should work with shimano floating jockey?
The campag & miche cassettes are only 12t & above 🙁 but I've found another old STW thread with a pointer to Highpath Engineering who aren't far from me, I'll see what I can work out after giving them a visit.
https://highpath.co.uk/cycle-information-freehubs-and-cassettes/
I run a Shimano 9s cassette with campag 9s, works fine.
Aren't campag 8s cassettes a different spline to their 9s ones?
You'll not get any Shani freehub to fit a campag hub.
Aren’t campag 8s cassettes a different spline to their 9s ones?
By the looks of it they are, this is all hurting my brain 😞
campag 9 speed cassettes are a different spline to their 8 speed ones, and a different spacing to a shimano one so it'll shift poorly with shimano mechs on a campag cassette
Spline is definitely different. You used to be able to cobble together a 9 speed cassette to fit that pattern with a cassette from Marchisio, but seems they have gone pop ( http://clemenzo.com/en/marchisio).
I _think_ I've got a 9sp Marchisio cassette to fit that pattern knocking around if you fancy giving it a go, but pretty sure a couple of key sprockets are pretty worn.
As above, I've run a shimano hub/cassette in a campag 9 system and its been OK, may not be true the other way though! Personally I'd probably go looking for a shimano wheel!
I think your option would be to have your wheel rebuilt with a Shimano compatible hub or get a spacer kit that allows you to respace your Campagnolo cassette to Shimano 9 speed but only run 8 gears. Highpath Engineering are the guys for spacers.
Ambrosia used to make champagne cassettes to fit shimano splines and shimano cassettes to fit champagne splines. Don’t know whether they still make 9 speed though.
Alternatively Jtek shiftmate lets campag work with shimano in a “mixed marriage”. It may also be possible to get cone of these to let you use 9 speed gear on 8 speed cassette. They have a big table on there website as to what will and won’t work.
Hope this help work a way through the confusion. Ol:-)
Thanks for the various pointers, normally I'd just go with a new rear wheel but being a tandem the hubs get pretty spendy for anything half decent, I think at the moment I've sourced some pauls thumbies to fit the original campag downtube shifters.
Update, the campag sprockets are all loose fit anyway, so there is nothing stopping me from just fitting narrower spacers between the sprockets to respace existing sprockets to shimano 9sp spacing 🙂 except that highpath aren't doing spacers at the moment 😕 but should be easy enough to find someone who can 👍
some sram cassettes are loose sprockets with a little bolt through. might be good to pinch spacers from?
Ask at your local bike shop - dead stuff like worn cassettes goes in the trash