dbmtb":9tg03c1j said:hydorah":9tg03c1j said:By use of the word 'poncy'... I guess you maybe voted uncool for Campag on an MTB?
Yup. And Ringle,Klein,Day-glo and kooka.
You misunderstood what I meant about Shimano standardisation. (fair dos - I didn't make it very clear). I meant the opposite - as in Shimano making its own weird standard which then becomes obsolete and impossible to get parts for - and some of their chainring BCDs have been plain obtuse. And UG/HG. You can't put HG cogs on UG hubs. Rapid-rise. Assymtrical chains. Refusal to adapt ahead standard as someone else invented it. Shall I go on?
Al - there's more than a little self-ridicule in the "counting myself in as one of the 33.3%" statement. Sorry you didn't spot it.
Haha! you misunderstand me! Re: UG/HG you are correct, but so am I!
What I'm talking about is you can put a UG onto an early(ish) HG freehub is what I meant (they had threads and splines for expressly that purpose) new compatible with old...
BCDs yeah I'll agree with that and those bloody spiderless chainsets grrr! I don't want to run 44t. Ha tough! best you buy another chainset then or at least get a spider....
Not all cool certainly