Campag cassette on Shimano wheel

terongi
terongi Posts: 318
edited December 2007 in Workshop
I have shimano rear wheel.

I need to put campag cassette on it.

How can I do it?

Comments

  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    Well, first you need a big hammer and possibly a welder and a cutting torch.

    Dennis Noward
  • terongi
    terongi Posts: 318
    Sorry about duplication; I have only just noticed the other similar thread.

    The other thread doesn't tell me exactly what to do to swap the freehub.

    How much is a freehub and what tools do I need?
  • djheaton321
    djheaton321 Posts: 50
    You don't need to change the freehub. Ambrosio do a cassette with campagnolo spacing to fit shimano hubs. Check out this site: www.surosa.biz they stock them.
  • shaw8670
    shaw8670 Posts: 264
    Cassette won't fit, but I use a shimano cassette and wheel with campag mechs and levers and it works. As long as the mechs and levers are compatable the cassettes are so similar as to make little or no difference. I matbe wouldn't do this on my best road bike, but for a winter or touring bile it will be fine.
    Greetings from the wet and windy North west
  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    There are 2 choices - there are a number of Campag-spaced, Shimano-splined cassettes available. Alternatively, dismantle a Shimano cassette and replace the spacers with Campagnolo-width ones - available from the likes of Highpath Engineering.
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • pjm-84
    pjm-84 Posts: 819
    Cassette won't fit, but I use a shimano cassette and wheel with campag mechs and levers and it works.

    Yep I keep telling people that and they wont believe it. Stick it on, adjust the indexing and bingo. Try it the other way around, i.e a Campag cassette with Shimano and it doesn't work very well.
    Paul
  • Raph
    Raph Posts: 249
    "I use a shimano cassette and wheel with campag mechs and levers and it works"

    Same here - I have a tourer with Campag 9sp, I changed the wheels for a shimano-compatible hope ti-glide just after hope stopped doing spare campag freehubs, so I put the thing on temporarily, and it was smoother than my all-campag road bike, so I've left it like that ever since. Just done a service on both bikes and the "shimergo" one is still every bit as smooth as the all-campag one. I didn't mess about with any re-routing cables or anything - just stuck the shimano 9sp wheel in as if it was going to work perfectly, and it did.

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