Campagnolo Tremendous Report Wi-fi Reshifts Compact Racing Gears in Carbon 2×12 Gruppo

Sure, Campy’s new ultra-premium Tremendous Report digital groupset is new completely wi-fi – Campagnolo Tremendous Report Wi-fi. And people thumb shift levers are gone. However equally huge information could also be the truth that Campy has gone the sub-compact route of SRAM and paired smaller chainrings to a smaller 10T cog out again, for what claims to be improved gear ratio steps with greater vary.

An entire lot has modified apart from the very apparent lack of wires. Let’s dig into the main points…

Campagnolo Tremendous Report Wi-fi digital 2 x 12-speed

For many years Campagnolo has been first to market among the many huge drivetrain behemoths at many street groupset milestones – like 1st 10sp, 11sp & 12sp groupsets… plus 1st 13-speed if we wish to embrace gravel and ignore Rotor. They even went backwards and forwards with Shimano, then Campy, then SRAM for electrifying 10, 11 & 12sp. However like their delayed adoption of street disc brakes, wi-fi has been a long-time coming.

Apparently sufficient, we just about had a drawing of this new Tremendous Report Wi-fi derailleur on our homepage greater than a yr in the past, as Campagnolo was hyped on Ekar success and the wi-fi next-gen of their street racing groupset was a scorching matter within the rumor mill. We’ve been speculating about this gruppo for 3 years now, primarily based on our patent patrol finds.

Now, we’ve received our fingers crossed that it is going to be as strong a efficiency as that late disc braking!

What’s New?

First off, it’s fully wi-fi. Replaceable batteries in every shifter, totally different rechargeable batteries in every derailleur that may be charged on or off the bike.

There are additionally all-new 2-button fingertip shift controls, wider grip ergonomics, smaller compact crankset gearing that takes benefit of smaller cogs on their N3W freehub, new smaller 12-speed cassettes with 10T smallest cogs, an influence meter-ready carbon crankset choice, and even some upgraded brake pads.

Plus, there’s loads of identified and trusted Campy tech – trendy angular aesthetics mixing Tremendous Report and even Ekar heritage, tons of carbon, loads of titanium, machined aluminum & metal, ceramic bearings, the identical 12-speed spacing you have already got (even when Campy doesn’t counsel any mixing-and-matching), and a few of the best-performing disc brakes on the street.

Tech particulars: New Ergopower levers

Let’s begin with the Ergopower brake levers & shifters (claimed 745g , pair). Gone is the long-running thumb downshift lever and the ‘One Lever, One Motion‘ ethos (and Campy’s applied sciences web page that defined why that was extra intuitive to make use of). As a substitute, you get 2 shift buttons behind the brake lever that look a bit like Di2-style, however with some further spacing in between them and a special tactile end on every to make it more durable to unintentionally hit the flawed lever.

The brand new levers are mentioned to be straightforward to adapt to, shifting the higher button with the tip of your index finger, and shifting the decrease button together with your center finger. Campagnolo says they moved away from their traditional internal thumb-shifter design to enchantment to a broader pool of cyclists, some who had bother working the internal shift lever, particularly these with smaller arms.

Wanting each from the facet profile and head-on, it’s clear that these new Ergopower hoods are each wider and bigger quantity than earlier generations of Report & Tremendous Report.

Presumably, that was a aware choice to create a extra snug place to relaxation your arms primarily based on Campy’s first feedback to us, since we’d count on electronics to take up much less area inside than mechanical shift internals. However, in comparison with the EPS system – now Campagnolo Tremendous Report Wi-fi levers must pack processing energy, Bluetooth communications {hardware}, and the replaceable CR2032 battery into the identical the place there was only a swap earlier than.

And it’s actually greater than only a few easy switches too…

On the again sides of the brand new carbon brake levers, Campagnolo hides much more tactile tech.

Greater than only a button underneath your fingertip although, the paddle with a gap in it (backed by the closed black pod that has the shift swap in it) all pivots alongside a metallic lever that extends again up the brake lever blade for a extra pure movement following the sing of your finger. The movement (from proper to left, above) strikes a number of mechanical springs, levers & different parts within the shift so that you just get an actual optimistic suggestions as you modify gears.

Again to the additional controls on the insides of the brand new Ergopower levers…

Up prime is a Mode button that’s designed for use throughout setup and diagnostics. Under is the Energy or Wake-Up button that once more has a principally setup & modify operate. However Campagnolo has talked about that it’s potential to customise not less than one in all these buttons on every shifter to regulate a linked Garmin GPS gadget.

We requested if it might be configured as a shift button to copy traditional Campy shift dynamics, however Campagnolo managed to not give a definitive reply.

The opposite dot there’s a LED indicator that may flash pink warning of low battery when there may be <15% cost remaining. Campagnolo says that in common use, riders ought to get 1.5-2 years of battery life out of the non-rechargeable button-cell battery in every shifter.

MyCampy in-app shift customization

After all, one of many greatest advantages to digital – and much more so, wi-fi – shifting is the power to customise its controls. Campy didn’t share a lot in regards to the new performance of the up to date MyCampy app apart from to say you can customise shift dynamics.

Commonplace manufacturing facility settings do use the thought of the suitable lever controlling the rear derailleur, the left lever controlling the entrance derailleur, prime buttons to a more durable gear, backside buttons to a neater gear. However it’s as much as you.

A few screengrabs from Campagnolo’s Tremendous Report Wi-fi presentation counsel some curious combos. That one on the proper appears prefer it would possibly recreate the One Lever, One Motion idea with the suitable levers making gears simpler, and left levers more durable? And the picture on the left appears prefer it may be Goblin Mode, simply push shifters and hope for the perfect.

New battery-powered wi-fi derailleurs

OK, so new wi-fi Ergopowers are key, however they’ve to regulate one thing, proper? Now they speak straight and independently to 2 new battery-powered wi-fi derailleurs.

Which additionally occur to gentle up the little winged Campagnolo brand on prime of every derailleur with each shift!

The Tremendous Report Wi-fi rear derailleur (claimed 295g) is generally carbon as we’ve seen earlier than from the Tremendous Report stage, with its digital motor and detachable battery tucked beneath the parallelogram – simply no extra wired connection.

It additionally options an unlocking mechanism, so it may be moved back-and-forth manually.

The brand new derailleurs are waterproofed to the excessive IP69K normal, as a result of Campagnolo is aware of somebody can be cleansing it off with a strain washer – professional staff mechanics, we’re taking a look at you.

The rear derailleur will get a shapely new cage – metal on the within, carbon on the surface, and spins the 2 12T pulleys on ceramic bearings. There’s only one cage size for all cassettes, and whereas Campy formally says it’s for the most important new cassettes (29T), they steered that there’s sufficient cage size to go a few enamel greater too.

The entrance derailleur (claimed 160g) is way the identical with an analogous digital motor up prime and a detachable battery on its entrance – no extra wires.

An essential notice right here is that each use totally different batteries, and each have a special mechanism to safe the battery in place. This was apparently a direct workaround SRAM AXS patents.

The large innovation right here although, is that Campagnolo contains charging contacts for a magnetic USB-powered charger so you’ll be able to both cost the batteries on the bike, or shortly pull them off and cost them in your desktop. And every battery contains LEDs clearly indicating the ability remaining.

Quoted battery life for the derailleurs is >750km for a race-level consumer, or greater than 1000km for a daily bicycle owner. Recharge time is claimed to be tremendous quick too, so one thing like a 75% recharge from flat in 30 minutes.

New compact crankset sizes

The brand new Tremendous Report Wi-fi crankset (claimed 585g, 172.5×45/29T with bearings) doesn’t look tremendous new, however there’s loads of new bits tucked inside what is actually a beauty reshaping that mixes the large ring reinforcement of the earlier Tremendous Report with a barely flatter, extra angular aesthetic inherited from Ekar.

The large shift although is to small rings.

The cranks now can be found with 50/34T new street, 48/32T new semi-compact, and 45/29T new compact gear ratios. That in fact coordinates with the brand new 10T cog giving you an identical prime velocity that you might have reached solely with a pro-only 55T huge chainring.

Campagnolo says they measure the extra friction loss as a result of smaller cogs (evaluating 55×11 to 50×10) to be simply 0.1W power loss within the lab with a +/-0.4W margin of error. So their feeling is that the beneficial properties from improved shifting and cadence will outweigh any further drivetrain drag. Campy did counsel because of this Tremendous Report Wi-fi didn’t go to the smaller 9T like Campy Ekar. And it was the improved small gear steps that satisfied them to stay with 2×12 on the street vs. 1×13 on gravel.

After all, new small chainrings means a brand new bolt circle diameter. #groan. This one is now an all-new uneven 121/88mm BCD that means solely Campagnolo chainrings in the meanwhile. The Extremely-Torque cranksets with titanium spindles can be found in 165, 170, 172.5 & 175mm arm lengths with 147.5mm Q-factor.

Additionally of notice although we don’t have any official particulars or affirmation right here… there’s a brand new flat spot on the again of every arm of this hole carbon crankset. Campagnolo confirmed that there’s not a powermeter on this crankset, and energy just isn’t a present choice. However Campy are engaged on an influence meter, and we’re fairly positive that’s the place it will go, possible in 2024.

New smaller 12sp cassettes with 10T cog

With new small chainrings comes new smaller gears – with optimized gearing steps, and revised tooth shaping for faster, smoother gear adjustments across the new, extra compact chainlines.

Campagnolo will supply three new 12-speed cassette choices with the brand new Tremendous Report Wi-fi gruppo, all that includes a 10T cog made potential by Campy’s newest N3W freehub physique innovation. The smallest 10-25T (claimed 210g) can be for flat landers and street purists, 10-27T can be an in-betweener, and 10-29T will supply the widest vary.

That 10-29T is wider than earlier 11-32T cassettes, and with one 12-speed derailleur designed to work nicely with all three variants, we predict the 10-29T would be the hottest.

Like the present 12-speed cassettes (which share the identical 12sp spacing however not the brand new tooth profiles, so will not be technically suitable), these new Tremendous Report Wi-fi cassettes are all machined from metal in a multi-gear cluster for the most important cogs, then a number of free cogs within the center, topped off by a monoblock of three smallest cogs shared by all cassette sizes and designed to mount over the trimmed down N3W physique.

Carry-over chain & brakes

One factor fully unchanged within the new group is the R12 (that’s Report 12sp) chain that debuted with the mechanical Report & Tremendous Report launch a number of years again (claimed 228g, 114 hyperlinks). New Tremendous Report Wi-fi does add the more moderen one-time-use quick-link although for improved usability.

The brand new group additionally carries over the identical Professional-Tech further sealed backside bracket tech from Ekar.

Hydraulic disc brakes are unchanged too. The one common grasp cylinder inside the brand new Tremendous Report Wi-fi Ergopower levers and these new brake calipers (claimed 118g, 140mm caliper) are literally the refined rolling replace that debuted with Ekar, and can stick with it to different teams. That is the most recent evolution of Campagnolo’s glorious hydraulic disc brakes are actually fully developed in-house (separate from the unique Magura cooperation), and made by Campy.

One new bit right here although – peeking out of the calipers above – Tremendous Report Wi-fi debuts a brand new Campagnolo crake pad with a lighter aluminum backing plate that Campy says dissipates warmth even higher than earlier than. The 30% lighter alloy-backed pads are suitable with all Campy brakes and could be retrofitted to some other groupset when it’s essential substitute your pads.

The warmth-dissipating, semi-floating disc brake rotors are additionally unchanged – out there in 140mm & 160mm diameters with stainless-steel braking floor and aluminum centerlock (AFS) carriers.

Claimed weight – light-weight or ultralight?

In the long run, Campagnolo Tremendous Report Wi-fi claims to successfully weigh the identical because the outgoing wired Tremendous Report EPS at 2520g for the entire setup. Campy has not but clarified to us what that features. It’s light-weight, however basically the identical as the highest Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 or SRAM Pink AXS teams which have all coalesced round that very same actual 2.5kg weight goal of their newest iterations.

Are you able to rethink Campy shifting? Wi-fi digital shifting is barely out there on the Tremendous Report stage for now (this yr?), however Campy successfully confirmed that they’re engaged on bringing wi-fi digital shifting to different groupsets, as nicely – an essential shift from the earlier era of EPS that deserted digital shifting at Report & Refrain ranges.

Fingers crossed that Ekar Wi-fi can be subsequent!

2023 Campagnolo Tremendous Report Wi-fi – Pricing & Availability

Formally the brand new 2023 Campagnolo Tremendous Report Wi-fi gruppo goes on sale immediately for $5400 / 5200€ for an entire 2×12 wireless-shift, hydraulic sic brake groupset together with your alternative of gearing. Campagnolo assures us that the brand new Tremendous Report Wi-fi group is definitely out there beginning immediately, and there’ll possible be quite a few full bike from manufacturers together with Canyon, Pinarello, Specialised, Wilier, and extra which might be out there to order beginning immediately.

However past the excessive pricetag of the brand new group which can possible restrict the quantity of people that can afford a brand new Tremendous Report Wi-fi setup, Campy says the brand new groupset can be out there in comparatively restricted numbers as manufacturing ramps up absolutely to fulfill demand.

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