Originally Posted by
AustinFitz
I'm well aware of the potential dangers of using the Mountech, and familiar with all of the better performing, mouth watering alternatives from SunTour. As I said, I'll probably upgrade it in the future. "I like to live dangerously" was a joke... I'm not using the Mountech to be "cute" or dangerous. It was simply the derailleur that came on the bike, and since it seemed to be fully functioning changing it out wasn't the first thing on my to-do list... I would absolutely LOVE to swap it out with a LeTech, second gen Mountech, or any of the 3 pulley versions!!! I'm also a big fan of the Cyclones and all of the GT series!
I'll eventually get around to finding one of those, but at the moment money is too tight for me to be shopping for derailleurs any time soon
Dig.
There's so much fun in playing with different derailleurs- I *do* do it to be cute. Or at least playful with it. I do think the oddball stuff is cool- ESPECIALLY when it works great. I love nifty, pretty and/or rare parts- but not at the expense of really harming performance or reliability.
Hearing the "plunk" of the derailleur cage going into the spokes is something I hope you never have to hear.
Your DB is a really cool bike, and your Centurion is outrageously classy beautiful.