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Old 03-20-14, 09:41 AM
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I have SRAM Rival on my felt and shift gears under load esp sprinting. No problem at all.
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Old 03-20-14, 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Psimet2001
Our resident ex-triathlete/kick ass woman of racing runs Q-rings with a red setup and would also occasionally drop to the outside. She's a very accomplished mechanic in her own right (and structural engineer and currently a wheelbuilder/racer/mother). She mentioned that it wasn't that big of a deal as she also would easily shift it back on to the ring....

Then last week she went out to California for a training camp (yeah, I know...right?) and they had one of the SRAM NRS guys running as mech the whole week. He adjusted it the first day and she said it changed drastically and improved. He said he slightly changed the limit.

So...thinking she had the limits tight, but seemingly with the Q-rings and the SRAM shifting setup he brought it in even tighter. It must flex a bit more than normal or just be more prone to dropping because of the rings so try giving that a shot. She's been raving about it since the change was made and she's hard to impress with mechanical things.
Interesting. My problem was that if I tightened the limits any further it would take mutliple tries to shift the front (up OR down), so it was damned if you do, wrong gear if you don't. Then the Yaw FD came out, and I planned on getting it as soon as it was available on its own through retail channels, and then my left shifter broke when I hit it hard trying to get that front upshift to work (having tightened the limits as noted above). That frustrated me enough I just switched to 5700 and haven't had a problem since (that was the S1; the drop-chainsuck was on the P3).
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The load I dropped this morning shifted a few rings due to last night's curry. It was my rear that got derailed, not my front.
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