Graeme_FK
Veteran
- Location
- Wherever there are sick bicycles
To draw together a few threads above ...
@goody, youngoldbloke:-
If you have Escape shifters (Xenon up to Centaur post 2007) and / or replacement bodies, don't lubricate - they don't need it and the lubes that are sprayed into them can & do cause more problems long-term than they solve. Ditto PowerShift bodies.
@RRSODL:-
2010 Veloce is non-serviceable (within the context of what I said about Escape shifters further up the thread) as these levers are PowerShift which is essentially a similar unit to Escape in a new outer shell.
UltraShift levers, on the other hand, can be serviced - and in year 1 of production, Campagnolo kept full spares kits for them in Vicenza.
We still carry out UltraShift servicing all the time - but as Campagnolo took the decision to go down the "complete bodies" route in model year 2010, the spares are no longer officially available. We buy complete bodies and break them down for spares so that we can maintain a complete stock of UltraShifter parts for service puroposes. We generally have PowerShift parts too, but we have the same reservations about attempting repair on PowerShift as we do on Escape.
@accountantpete :-
You'll appreciate, I am sure, that we have to cover ourselves and be very specific. For sure you can "get most things to work" but from our perspective, we'd like things to work & go on working as they were designed to work. If a problem occurs off the back of advice that we give, we could be held to be liable so we have to be a tad conservative and careful in what we say ...
@goody, youngoldbloke:-
If you have Escape shifters (Xenon up to Centaur post 2007) and / or replacement bodies, don't lubricate - they don't need it and the lubes that are sprayed into them can & do cause more problems long-term than they solve. Ditto PowerShift bodies.
@RRSODL:-
2010 Veloce is non-serviceable (within the context of what I said about Escape shifters further up the thread) as these levers are PowerShift which is essentially a similar unit to Escape in a new outer shell.
UltraShift levers, on the other hand, can be serviced - and in year 1 of production, Campagnolo kept full spares kits for them in Vicenza.
We still carry out UltraShift servicing all the time - but as Campagnolo took the decision to go down the "complete bodies" route in model year 2010, the spares are no longer officially available. We buy complete bodies and break them down for spares so that we can maintain a complete stock of UltraShifter parts for service puroposes. We generally have PowerShift parts too, but we have the same reservations about attempting repair on PowerShift as we do on Escape.
@accountantpete :-
You'll appreciate, I am sure, that we have to cover ourselves and be very specific. For sure you can "get most things to work" but from our perspective, we'd like things to work & go on working as they were designed to work. If a problem occurs off the back of advice that we give, we could be held to be liable so we have to be a tad conservative and careful in what we say ...
