Anyone know when will campagnolo start selling 36T rings?

neeb

I see that the new "semi-compact" 36-52 Campagnolo chainsets are now available. Presumably this means that they will have to start selling replacement 36T rings for 2011-2013 ultratorque (with the threaded bolt holes). I presume that these could also be used in conjunction with 50T outer rings, so it should be possible to convert a standard compact to a 36-50 without having to use 3rd party rings from TA etc. Anyone know when these will be available?

dennisn

Have you tried contacting Campy??? They would most likely know more than we would.

neeb

Ha, yes, I have tried contacting Campagnolo on matters such as this on multiple occasions... If they reply at all, they just give you whatever the standard marketing line is at that moment. I actually contacted them about a year ago (before the 36-52 cranksets were announced) to ask about 36T rings and they replied about a month later just to say that they didn't make them. No mention of the fact that they were about to start doing so.

I'm a 36-50 fan and currently have TA rings on my 2011 ultratorque 110 BCD crank. I still have the original unused 34 and 50T campagnolo rings however (you can't mix and match the campag and TA rings post 2011, or at least you can only do it one way), and an old 10 speed compact crankset. If I could get a campag 11sp 36T ring I could put that on the best bike with the 50T campag ring and use the TA rings to convert the old crankset to 11sp.

The TA rings will fit either pre 2011 ultratorque or 2011-2013 if you get the clever TA reversible chainring bolts. They are light and durable, but I suspect not as stiff as the campag ones.

dennisn

neeb wrote:

Ha, yes, I have tried contacting Campagnolo on matters such as this on multiple occasions... If they reply at all, they just give you whatever the standard marketing line is at that moment. I actually contacted them about a year ago (before the 36-52 cranksets were announced) to ask about 36T rings and they replied about a month later just to say that they didn't make them. No mention of the fact that they were about to start doing so.

Not trying to be an a**hole but if Campy won't or can't tell you I have my doubts that anyone on this or any other forum will be able to help. I guess I'm saying "How would we know?". :?

neeb

Sometimes you get people on forums who work in the industry and know stuff, or maybe someone just happens to have seen them for sale somewhere already. Who knows? I could ask Campagnolo again of course now that the 36-52 are out, but I wouldn't be holding my breath...

stoobydale

I have a 36/50 Centaur carbon chainset. It's the old square taper type so don't know if the rings fit, but they have obviously in the past made a 36t ring. Seems a bit daft if they have stopped.

neeb

stoobydale wrote:

I have a 36/50 Centaur carbon chainset. It's the old square taper type so don't know if the rings fit, but they have obviously in the past made a 36t ring. Seems a bit daft if they have stopped.

Yes, they even did a 36T for the 10 speed ultratorque for the first year, you could buy a 50-36 as a standard option. Then they stopped... The 10 speed rings are a little wider (or more widely spaced) than the 11sp I think.

Good that they are going to be doing a 36-52, but it will have the same really big jump between the two rings as the 34-50. I don't understand why 36-50s aren't more popular.

g00se

You could try a Campag distributor. Chicken Cycles can be a bit vague but i-ride seem a decent lot.

canamdad

I like 50/36 too and use a TA Nerius chainring on an UT Veloce crankset. Really, it makes my head spin to try to take in all the changes that Campag has made in the past 4-5 years. I don't think that they can really fully keep up with it themselves.