Last year Campagnolo made some changes to their top 3
groups, Super Record, Record, and Chorus. Rebranded as "Revolution",
they made some sweet mechanical and aesthetic modifications. I instantly fell
in love with was the new shift hoods with the Campagnolo logo painted in white.
Subtle, and so very nice. The 2015+ Campagnolo Revolution equipment is beautiful
and functional, but also super expensive! The 2015 Chorus shifter and mechs run
around $600. A bit out of my price range. However, the Athena powershift levers
and rear mech is $200 shipped, and was well within my price range.
Recently I bought a pair of broken Chorus revolution
shifters. I was able to salvage the levers and the hoods from the right shifter
and transfer them to the Athena body. The left Chorus shifter turned out to be
fine. Unlike most people, I like the feel of the Powershift system for the
right shifter and I like the Ultrashift set up for the left. What was more
intriguing is that the new style of hoods works perfectly for the pre 2015
shifters. I was told that you could not use the "Revolution" hoods on
the older shifter bodies, but that is just not true.
I just learned from Jaegher that my Phantom frameset is due
to ship out today.
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