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@DuffBeer
I thought I’d chime in as I did exactly the same thing but in reverse (1995 8-Speed Shamal’s with my other wheels having Daytona hubs) whilst running an 8-Speed groupset.
I ran a Veloce 9-Speed cassette and just lost one of the cogs and used the 8-Speed spacers out of the original cassette that was on the Shamal’s. The difference in cog thickness was so minimal that the shifting worked perfect and was still silent. The final cog had slightly less spacing as the spacer is built onto the cog, but I just ran the limit screw with a slight bias towards the outside rather than perfectly in line and that worked perfectly.
I converted to 11-Speed last year as I wanted to get a greater range of ratios rather than having to choose between grinding up hills or ‘doing a Froome’ on anything greater than -1% and I’m so happy I did. The 1995 Shamal’s have been converted with an old Veloce 9-Speed freehub which fits the older 12mm axles perfectly (the hub was about £45 on the Bay) so I now have modern capability on what I reckon are the prettiest hubs Campag ever did.
As far as converting the older shifters to or from 8 and 9-Speed it can be done without too much swearing (I converted some 1999 9-Speed levers to 8-Speed to get a newer more ergonomic shape whilst still maintaining compatibility with the 8-Speed groupset). Campag do the full range of spare parts catalogues on their websites which shows the exploded diagrams and all the parts. Just make sure if you do decide to get a pair of shifters to cannibalise you don’t mix the internal types. Quick Shift used an escapement mechanism which isn’t compatible with the internals of the older types of levers.
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