Campy 11 speed FD braze on to clip on conversion

The Campy website says no on question #5
http://www.campagnolo.com/jsp/en/faq/faqcatid_9.jsp#78

Is this really true as I am considering using a Problem Solvers 28.6
mm adapter clamp on a not-yet-purchased Athena 11 speed groupset?
Thanks.
-Mike

mowens61-gmail.com wrote:
The Campy website says no on question #5
http://www.campagnolo.com/jsp/en/faq/faqcatid_9.jsp#78

Is this really true as I am considering using a Problem Solvers 28.6
mm adapter clamp on a not-yet-purchased Athena 11 speed groupset?
Thanks.
-Mike

I believe older Campy front der's, clamp-on or braze-on, were the same
for the most part, and you could interchange the part that attached to
the frame - a clamp or a bolt-to-braze-on fitting. So you could convert
the der. fully from a braze-on to clamp-on derailleur. I suspect that
Campy's site means to say that you can't do this with the 11s front der's.

As to the Problem Solvers adapter clamp, the derailleur doesn't know or
care what sort of "braze-on" fitting it's bolted to - brazed on steel or
bolt-on aluminum (or glued on carbon fiber, for that matter). Should
work fine, I would think.

Mark J.

mowens61-gmail.com wrote:
The Campy website says no on question #5
http://www.campagnolo.com/jsp/en/faq/faqcatid_9.jsp#78

Is this really true as I am considering using a Problem Solvers 28.6
mm adapter clamp on a not-yet-purchased Athena 11 speed groupset?


One may no longer swap the bodies[1] but an adapter,
although maybe an aesthetic problem, will work just fine.

[1] common practice in Campagnolo's halcyon 2000~2007 era

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Andrew Muzi
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Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On Jul 21, 10:02*am, "mowens61-gmail.com" wrote:
The Campy website says no on question #5http://www.campagnolo.com/jsp/en/faq/faqcatid_9.jsp#78

Is this really true as I am considering using a Problem Solvers 28.6
mm adapter clamp on a not-yet-purchased Athena 11 speed groupset?
Thanks.
-Mike

Mike & Andrew are both right. Campy's answer to #5 is unclear,
perhaps due to translation.

Another example is their answer to #11 -- the question was about
availability of a straight block (11-21) & campagnolo completely
missed the point.

- Sergio Moretti