Shimano/Campagnolo workaround

zhang

I've got a bike with a campy wheelset/cassette and a shimano drivetrain. The gears all index correctly, although the drivetrain is quite noisy. What's the most cost effective way to get a properly spaced shimano cassette on there? I've seen people replace freehub bodies (but this seems quite expensive and there are many types?)

Is my best bet to either get a new wheelset or man up and deal with the noise?

ugo.santalucia

There are shimano spaced campagnolo splined cassettes. Otherwise use a shift mate, which corrects the pull ratio using a pulley

Monty Dog

Campagnolo-spaced, Shimano splined cassettes exist but AFAIK not the other way around unless you go for an expensive Marchisio one. If you have / use a Mirage / Veloce cassette that you can split into individual sprockets, you can simply replace with the Shimano-thickness ones (about £20 from Highpath Engineering) or use a JTek Shiftmate.

bikaholic

Or try the documented trick for Shimano shifters/derailleurs of clamping the gear cable a little offset under the clamp bolt so as to alter the RD parallelogram movement ratio.