Am I the only one who thinks m900 xtr shifters are cack?

[FluffyChicken]

To be fair, internally the M900 shifter where near as damn it the same as the XT M095 and DX of the era.
The brake lever where the same SLR+ servowaves (dx a bit later on)
though the dx and xt I shifter lying around the cable holder plastic have all cracked and so are now defunct.

Odd for the 1995 spec as XTR had incremented to M910, so bringing the 737 up to XTR colours, I mean level.

M900 certainly wasn't light but leave out quality, far from it.
M737 was lighter, mainly due to the CD chainset setup and everything was milled out more.

 

[jonboy]

They where cack and still are cack, it's what converted* to GripShift BiTD, which I really like

The only bike with M900 on now has an STX/Alivio 8 speed shifter in it place as the M900 was well cack.

Of course they bettered the design later on, though I do have some M739 STI's that have a poor funny feeling thumb paddle.



*helped along by it ceasing to function as a shifter anymore in less than a year

Are you serious? "convert to gripshift"??? Gripshit, sorry i mean Gripshift were no comparison to any Shimano shifter of comparable age. To be fair, i've never used M900 STi's, but almost everything else Shimano around that model. I just don't believe you can say they were "cack" ?!?!? Gripshift were the devil's sporn. A flawed idea to make part of the grip rotate. Anyone who prefers Gripshift clearly can't ride a mountain bike properly.

 

[Rampage]

The 737 cranks was not very good and the M900's may be the best cranks ever made.

What's wrong with the M737 cranks? Best looking Shimano cranks ever IMHO.

 

[dbmtb]

Stopped using RF+ after my XT exploded at the first race I ever entered - was doing really well too until that happened.

Went to thumbshifters after that and stayed with them till Sachs Extremes gripshifts came out. Which I stayed with through til M770.... but have now gone back to SRAM gripshifts except for the M950 and M953 I have on the Parkpre and RC200.

 

[chefmiguel]

You're all on crack, kidding of course but seriously stop hitting the pipe.

 

[makster]

The 737 cranks was not very good and the M900's may be the best cranks ever made.

What's wrong with the M737 cranks? Best looking Shimano cranks ever IMHO.

Agreed. Last decent looking set of cranks made by shimano, imo

 

[FluffyChicken]

They where cack and still are cack, it's what converted* to GripShift BiTD, which I really like

The only bike with M900 on now has an STX/Alivio 8 speed shifter in it place as the M900 was well cack.

Of course they bettered the design later on, though I do have some M739 STI's that have a poor funny feeling thumb paddle.



*helped along by it ceasing to function as a shifter anymore in less than a year

Are you serious? "convert to gripshift"??? Gripshit, sorry i mean Gripshift were no comparison to any Shimano shifter of comparable age. To be fair, i've never used M900 STi's, but almost everything else Shimano around that model. I just don't believe you can say they were "cack" ?!?!? Gripshift were the devil's sporn. A flawed idea to make part of the grip rotate. Anyone who prefers Gripshift clearly can't ride a mountain bike properly.

Each to their own and anyone who cannot use whatever is on the bike obviously cannot ride an MTB properly

anyway since you've never used M900 STI then you cannot comment on them w.r.t. this thread

 

[ringo]

I have the same feeling with M95* rear mechs of any variant!

M739 XT best mech Shimano ever made! Although M900 variants do look nice...

 

[mkaavin]

They where cack and still are cack, it's what converted* to GripShift BiTD, which I really like

The only bike with M900 on now has an STX/Alivio 8 speed shifter in it place as the M900 was well cack.

Of course they bettered the design later on, though I do have some M739 STI's that have a poor funny feeling thumb paddle.



*helped along by it ceasing to function as a shifter anymore in less than a year

Are you serious? "convert to gripshift"??? Gripshit, sorry i mean Gripshift were no comparison to any Shimano shifter of comparable age. To be fair, i've never used M900 STi's, but almost everything else Shimano around that model. I just don't believe you can say they were "cack" ?!?!? Gripshift were the devil's sporn. A flawed idea to make part of the grip rotate. Anyone who prefers Gripshift clearly can't ride a mountain bike properly.

Like! :-D

 

[mkaavin]

The 737 cranks was not very good and the M900's may be the best cranks ever made.

What's wrong with the M737 cranks? Best looking Shimano cranks ever IMHO.

Agreed. Last decent looking set of cranks made by shimano, imo

Well they may look good but I never liked the Microdrive that much.

Still, in my experience the M737 cranks was not strong enough at least not for big riders like myself. My cranks weakened in....eerrh...what do you call the square hole in the crank where you mount the crank on the bb spindle? Anyway they weakened there. Had to tighten them more and more to compensate for that thus only making it worse in the process.

I first believed it to be only my crank with a problem but at the time, I was working as a mechanic in a bike shop and got more customer bikes in for service with the same problem.

This may of course be a problem only related to early batches of these cranks since other people in here do not have the same experience. Still my experience keep me from using these cranks at least for my own builds.