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Rapid Rise was ace when used with normal shifters.
What highly rated products did the bike media convince you to buy, only to not live up to the review?
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Ren Rawbor
Fat Chance Fan
Got 2 bikes here with C2 front & rear. Only issue I've found with them is the adjusters getting sticky if left at one end of their travel (and the bleed procedure is a bit of a faff by the book, requiring spillage of fluid). I am running DOT4 though maybe they prefer that to the official correct fluid
DMR chain device here, the one with a bottom roller & pseudo mech-cage at the top. worked OK-ish to begin, although chain rubbed like a badly indexed FM in anything but gear 4 or 5. However the first time the roller took a hit (as it would on a bike used to anything near it's potential) it bent up like the cheap thin sheet metal it is causing it to constantly derail the chain until the roller was removed. Bin fodder...
Oh, oh, oh and... Anything made by SR Suntour. ESPECIALLY Hexatech or whatever the crappy 6-pointed BB profile was called. Not that they're inherently terrible, (although they likely are!) but because the threads are just that bit bigger than standard square tapered with the result that the snout of a crank puller sneaks inside the thread & chews up both axle and puller snout.
And the big one, Grip Shift... They raved over this crap IIRC & as soon as it hit the local bike shop I converted my old Townsend from TY thumbies, and it never shifted as badly. Every single Gripshift set up, SRAM or otherwise, I've ever tried has just reinforced my love of rapidfire or thumbies.
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Ren Rawbor
Fat Chance Fan
That was really a thing? Hell, I saw the major issue with it as soon as I realised what it was! Maybe usable with Spin wheels, not sure if the valve hole is centred between spokes on those?
7Speed
Retro Guru
OMG yes - Shimano dual control never felt great on Gen1. I had them on a top normal mech too (first time) which did not make things easier. Apparently Gen2 was a lot better but the damage was done by then…
I still don’t have a single chainring mountain bike with a dinner plate rear cassette …but they seem to make sense?
Oh I had forgot Rapid Rise. It worked until the spring weakened, when it would upshift when out of the saddle on the steepest climbs. Genius.
Shimano solves another non-existent problem.
1x only make sense if you are in the business of selling cassettes. Worse chainline for the highest loaded gears.
Shimano solves another non-existent problem.
1x only make sense if you are in the business of selling cassettes. Worse chainline for the highest loaded gears.
7Speed
Retro Guru
Are they really that bad? Anyone want to buy an 98 F2000?
7Speed
Retro Guru
That’s two of us
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