Modern mech mud collection

[mattr]

Meh. Wife's new bike will be getting ground next week.

Bloody great dual pull lever that'll never be used!

 

[twain]

Re:

this will do it surely. and at a fraction of the weight.
they come free with those funny drinks you get at bars with no stools.
plus you can pretend to be a giant when it rains.

 

[The History Man]

That looks like a SRAM one. I need shimano.

 

[velofrog]

tangential fling

sounds like a Highland dance for mathematicians!

 

[02gf74]

tangential fling

sounds like a Highland dance for mathematicians!

Surely you just need to cycle faster than the speed of the mud being flung off?

 

[twain]

That looks like a SRAM one. I need shimano.

Don't you mean S-RAM?
You can make it compatible with Shimano. Just need to buy a new groupset.

 

[hamster]

The latest ones are useless for collecting mud and ugly. I fitted a 1995 M737 XT to my son's 10 speed setup, problem solved.

So much for progress - 6 pointless extra gears since 1995 but still the problem of mud is unsolved. But the Shimano marketing machine whirrs on.

 

[02gf74]

The latest ones are useless for collecting mud and ugly. I fitted a 1995 M737 XT to my son's 10 speed setup, problem solved.

So much for progress - 6 pointless extra gears since 1995 but still the problem of mud is unsolved. But the Shimano marketing machine whirrs on.

.. actually latest modern stuff is 13 gears less unless you have the new fangled modern 1x12 in which case it is 12 gears less.

I tell ya, 1x11 is the way to go and it's progress.

 

[hamster]

If you consider a narrower gear range to be progress. :?
32 up front with an 11/40 cassette is the same as an 11/28 7 speed with 22/32 up front. It has one unique ratio extra compared to that 7 speed arrangement. In return you get narrower chains and a more finicky setup. Admittedly the longer cable pull makes it substantially less tetchy than 9 speed of old, but little else.
Some stuff have come on in leaps and bounds, like carbon frames and disc braking. For gears I'm less convinced.

 

[02gf74]

I have SRAM so 10-42 with 32 T . Yes, ofcourse it is a compromise but fewer gears on a mountain bike don't bother me as I can probably get away with 5 or less. On a road bike where you are spinning at a more constant rate due to terrain not changing as quickly, it may be a problem, and that may be to my pedalling style anyway where I'm not too strict about keeping to 90 rpm.

I know for sure that 32-10 is too low down hills and as I've not done any long steep climbs, my gut feel is that 32-42 is too high.