Centaur or Chorus?

Solomander said:

I am scoring a new bike from Rivendell. Instead of bar ends, I would
prefer to use Ergo shifters (never tried bar ends, but like Ergo a lot
on my other 2 bikes). Chorus Ergos are about $75 more than Centaur.
If the Chorus shifters are more robust or work better, I would happily
spend the extra money. If the only differences are in weight and
bragging rights, I will go with Centaur shifters.

What do you think?

Joel

Carbon Fiber Chorus saves 51 grams over Aluminum Alloy Centaur. Insides seem to work the same to me.
Peter Chisholm sell a lot of Campy; maybe he will chime in.

Guts-wise, the Chrous has bearing and the Centaur has a bushing about which
the mechanism functions. I would think in this type of service it would
make much difference as it's not a hub or BB.

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Solomander said:

I am scoring a new bike from Rivendell. Instead of bar ends, I would
prefer to use Ergo shifters (never tried bar ends, but like Ergo a lot
on my other 2 bikes). Chorus Ergos are about $75 more than Centaur.
If the Chorus shifters are more robust or work better, I would happily
spend the extra money. If the only differences are in weight and
bragging rights, I will go with Centaur shifters.

What do you think?

Joel

Carbon Fiber Chorus saves 51 grams over Aluminum Alloy Centaur.
Insides seem to work the same to me.
Peter Chisholm sell a lot of Campy; maybe he will chime in.

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daveornee

Chris said:

Guts-wise, the Chrous has bearing and the Centaur has a bushing about
which the mechanism functions. I would think in this type of service
it would make much difference as it's not a hub or BB.

I think you meant to say it wouldn't make much difference.

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Phil Lee, Squid

Phil Lee said:

Chris said:

Guts-wise, the Chrous has bearing and the Centaur has a bushing about
which the mechanism functions. I would think in this type of service
it would make much difference as it's not a hub or BB.

I think you meant to say it wouldn't make much difference.

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Phil Lee, Squid

Are you related to Phil Lee, Cheese Steak? ;-)

Solomander said:

I am scoring a new bike from Rivendell. Instead of bar ends, I would
prefer to use Ergo shifters (never tried bar ends, but like Ergo a lot
on my other 2 bikes). Chorus Ergos are about $75 more than Centaur.
If the Chorus shifters are more robust or work better, I would happily
spend the extra money. If the only differences are in weight and
bragging rights, I will go with Centaur shifters.

What do you think?

Joel

Add carbon shift levers/brake lever and a ball bearing innard(that does
nothing) instead of a brass bushing and you get Chorus...Not smoother,
not longer lasting...Centaur for 2006 is the best value-Record w/o the
carbon and titanium....

I find my Centaur levers to work as well as Chorus. Crashing with CF levers makes me nervous, so I was disturbed to see that Campy has gone to CF for the latest Centaur.

The ball-bearing mechanism in theChorus levers last a lot longer, at least
mine have.
I've gone 6-8 years on average with my Chorus levers and no problems, knock
on alluminum:-]

I'm one of those who also wishes they would continue to offer the alluminum
version of the levers. There are many, many scraped alluminum versions out
there, including mine. A friend had a minor crash the other day and when we
picked his bike up his right Record CF lever was cracked...

-pete

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I find my Centaur levers to work as well as Chorus. Crashing with CF
levers makes me nervous, so I was disturbed to see that Campy has gone
to CF for the latest Centaur.

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jmoryl