road link and campy

[fa63]

Originally Posted by R3awak3n

was it a mid cage campy?

No, short cage Chorus RD.

[R3awak3n]

Originally Posted by fa63

No, short cage Chorus RD.

ok thats good to know, I still have hope

[Clean39T]

Update?

I'm about to do 11/36 SunRace with 34/50 and Med Cage Centaur w a Road Link - wondering if I should just go to 11/40 and have #allthegears - or if that's a bridge too far...

[Duende]

Originally Posted by R3awak3n

was it a mid cage campy?


just saw this youtube video, I might not even need the road link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpjr7gX1vFc


I also am probably going to go 46-34 on the crank but that guy has a compact and says its working perfectly.

I was thinking this would work. Wonder how much chain slap there is though. Especially for gravel where you really need the 1:1 ratio

[AngryScientist]

Originally Posted by Clean39T

Update?

I'm about to do 11/36 SunRace with 34/50 and Med Cage Centaur w a Road Link - wondering if I should just go to 11/40 and have #allthegears - or if that's a bridge too far...

no bueno with that RD. you wont have enough chainwrap to have any chain tension at the lower end of the cassette in the 34 if you also attempt to allow for the big/big with the 40. the 36 is going to be marginal.

[AngryScientist]

i had this set-up with a 38 front ring and 11-40 in the back. same mid cage RD and a roadlink. there was barely any chain tension at the lower end of the cassette, so doing the same with a 34 in front would be the suck.

[R3awak3n]

Originally Posted by Clean39T

Update?

I'm about to do 11/36 SunRace with 34/50 and Med Cage Centaur w a Road Link - wondering if I should just go to 11/40 and have #allthegears - or if that's a bridge too far...

on my end?

I think I had another thread about it BUT

I am running a 36t cassette in the back with a road link and has been flawless. however I am running 46/34 and not 50/34. I would think 50/34 would work but not very usable small small, chain would probably be too long but who needs to use that anyways.


I hightly doubt a 40 would work, even with a road link... even wolf tooth says 36t is the max for campy and I am going to believe them on that.

[jtakeda]

I’m planning on doing this on a build but it looks like on the wolf tooth website it says the road link is only approved to work on shimano rear ders.

Thoughts?

[R3awak3n]

Originally Posted by jtakeda

I’m planning on doing this on a build but it looks like on the wolf tooth website it says the road link is only approved to work on shimano rear ders.

Thoughts?

depends where you look. I was confused by this too, there is another part of that terrible website that says wolftooth works with campy, sram, shimano. Campy only recommended for up to a 36T cassette.

That said, now on this for a while and it is still working very well. Now have Easton cranks 47-32 with a 11-36 sram cassette in the back.

[jtakeda]

Originally Posted by R3awak3n

depends where you look. I was confused by this too, there is another part of that terrible website that says wolftooth works with campy, sram, shimano. Campy only recommended for up to a 36T cassette.

That said, now on this for a while and it is still working very well. Now have Easton cranks 47-32 with a 11-36 sram cassette in the back.

I see that they approve the use of 9 speed campy, sram, shimano
But it says that 11 speed has not been tested and they can’t recommend it’s use

Sounds like it works fine

[AngryScientist]

it works fine with campy-11.

1000's of miles on this set-up now, no problem.

[R3awak3n]

Originally Posted by jtakeda

I see that they approve the use of 9 speed campy, sram, shimano
But it says that 11 speed has not been tested and they can’t recommend it’s use

Sounds like it works fine

"The RoadLink™ is optimized for the 10- and 11-speed Shimano road derailleur geometry. It also works very well with 9-speed road groups, all SRAM groups, and Campy derailleurs! One note is that with Campy it works best with cassettes up to 11-36."

quote taken from here - https://www.wolftoothcomponents.com/products/roadlink

I think you are reading that wrong. Says works with 10-11 shim groups, 9 speed groups and all sram groups and campy groups. So they are saying yes to campy groups, all of them.


But also from experience, works great

[ultraman6970]

Getting this alive...

Due to the suffering I got in the last century where I had to literally walk like 3 climbs, decided to set a bike just for up and down steep hills rides.

Thought just going triple, got the crankset from a forumite, found a triple fd eventhought probably a compact campy fd was going to work. Now im having a hard time finding a campagnolo long cage rd for the right price, theres a record long cage that jumped like to 200 bucks in a matter of minutes at ebay.

I have a veloce 10 moving around, which probably will clear 28 or 30 T cogs but just to play safe was thinking in adding one of those wolftooth roadlinks and call it a day.

The triple has a 42 in it and i do not have the bad custom of crossing chains like a madman.

Any comments about it? It will work?

Looks like found my answer....

https://www.bikeforums.net/bicycle-m...road-link.html

[Dave]

Campy's current 12 speed RDs use a similar device, but it moves the RD straight back by 25mm, so it will clear a 34T sprocket.

I can climb just about anything with my 48/32 and 11-34