Campagnolo Rally Rear derailleur

[ferrus]

Here’s the Nuovo Record badged Rally anyway

https://flic.kr/p/fMKFqn

 

[vcballbat]

Even when I’m out I’m thinking about derailleurs!

Am I struggling with something

 

[Deleted member 69416]

Just to add to the Rally chronology, there was also a limited number of second gen 3550 mech's released in '84 with Nuovo Record front plates.
I have a NOS one and assumed it was a 'bitsa' or maybe an off-the-books jobbie assembled from random parts by Campag employees (as was sometimes the case, apparently) but then I found one in a Japanese Campag catalogue. Seems they'd run short of Rally plates at the time so used the NR ones.
There's a few references to this version in the comments section here: http://velobase.com/ViewComponent.aspx? ... 32b5ed3114

Campag manufacturing has instances like this throughout the 70s it would seem . Like the use of ally top bolts in lieu of titanium on SR mechs .
(I realise I'm preaching to the choir)
Making it work with what you've got is an Italian talent I think .

 

[ferrus]

For sure. It’s one of the things I love about vintage Campag.
Some of the most obscure anomalies make life difficult for the collector though - no one I mentioned the ‘Nuovo Record’ Rally to believed it was a production part.

 

[Deleted member 69416]

Do you know if the "Super Rally" was an actual Campag creation or just people putting a Rally cage on a Super Record ?
Keeping up with the Jones is exhausting .

 

[ferrus]

Pretty sure it’s just a modification (for tarts)

 

[ferrus]

Another oddity was them spec’ing the horrible steel Olympus cage on some Centaur mech’s in 92

 

[Deleted member 69416]

Pretty sure it’s just a modification (for tarts)

I won't then.

 

[ferrus]

No, do it. Embrace!

 

[Deleted member 69416]

No, do it. Embrace!

I am a tart after all .