Definitely know I'm not the first or last to do this. The motive is to get two of my builds sorted
without dashing out to Ebay - my parts box had two RDs in the right colour (yes, I can be a
real bike tart sometimes) but the specs are off with what I want to achieve.
Basically, I want a RD for a triple which should handle a 34T large sprocket, and another RD which
will go on a SS city beater or possibly a 1 x 9 set-up with a 26T large sprocket.
The start points are a Sora and Alivio RD, which are frankly a bit naff, but plenty usable for purpose, the
parallelogram slants looks good, so all the more reason to try.
At one point doing a cage swap required just a small allen key and 5 mins. Now with "progress"
a lot of the low end dross is composed of the plastic fantastic with immediate access to internal working gone.
Shimano have done this to deliberately just to infuriate us tinkerers and keep to a Walmart price point.
I'm not letting the lockdown lifting sway me away; I'm still going to waste stupid time indoors with old tat
without dashing out to Ebay - my parts box had two RDs in the right colour (yes, I can be a
real bike tart sometimes) but the specs are off with what I want to achieve.
Basically, I want a RD for a triple which should handle a 34T large sprocket, and another RD which
will go on a SS city beater or possibly a 1 x 9 set-up with a 26T large sprocket.
The start points are a Sora and Alivio RD, which are frankly a bit naff, but plenty usable for purpose, the
parallelogram slants looks good, so all the more reason to try.
At one point doing a cage swap required just a small allen key and 5 mins. Now with "progress"
a lot of the low end dross is composed of the plastic fantastic with immediate access to internal working gone.
Shimano have done this to deliberately just to infuriate us tinkerers and keep to a Walmart price point.
I'm not letting the lockdown lifting sway me away; I'm still going to waste stupid time indoors with old tat
