Trying to help with Campagnolo Compatibility

simonfoley

I am helping a friend who was sold a second-hand bike from some not so nice person and cannot take it back. The person sold her a bike with Campagnolo group, crankset but shimano cassette, chain and back wheel. For self-explanatory reasons, it is a disaster, with no changes and chain all over the place.

I figured that the cheapest thing to do would be to replace the back wheel with a Campagnolo one, get a cheap Campy cassette and chain and she would be fully Campy, all would change smoothly, and all would be okay. She would be £150 worse off for no reason other than not knowing a lot about bikes, but it was the best of a bum deal.

However, I live outside the UK and brought these wheels

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=29089

I also got the 10-speed Campy cassette

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=26053

The problem is that only now when I have received them and come to put it together can I see that they are not compatible. What did I miss? How is a Campy wheelset and a Campy Veloce 10-speed cassette not compatible? The spines on the hub and the cassette simply do not match. They are definitely Campy wheels as this is not the same as my Shinamo hubs.

Does anyone know which cassette I need to get? Or what the issue might be?

Thanks for any help. I am sure my friend will eventually appreciate it.

Simon

ugo.santalucia

The cheapest way is either

1) a Marchisio 10 speed cassette shimano splined/ campagnolo spaced or
2) a Shiftmate

Both options are around 30-40 pounds

rpd_steve

If the spline on the hub of the wheel is not the Shimarno one then they WILL match - there are only Shimarno/SRAM or Campag in production...

Campag splines look like they should fit any way of the 4 possible positions, but the gap between one of the 4 'pairs' of slots is smaller than the rest. Have a look when calm and chilled and it will all make sense. I agree with the above post, you can get cassettes splines for Shimarno but spaced for campag, and also a converter to change how much the mech moves.

But as you no have campag wheels and a cassette then why not do it the right way?!

Coach H

RPD Steve wrote:

If the spline on the hub of the wheel is not the Shimarno one then they WILL match - there are only Shimarno/SRAM or Campag in production...

Campag splines look like they should fit any way of the 4 possible positions, but the gap between one of the 4 'pairs' of slots is smaller than the rest. Have a look when calm and chilled and it will all make sense. I agree with the above post, you can get cassettes splines for Shimarno but spaced for campag, and also a converter to change how much the mech moves.

But as you no have campag wheels and a cassette then why not do it the right way?!

+1. While Campag built wheels have a freehub design that makes it obvious how to orient the cassette, some others take some trial and error to make the splines match up, but they will (or should).