Bike Forums - View Single Post - If you would have to pick one derailleur

10-14-22 | 02:16 PM

#13

scarlson

Senior Member

Joined: Jun 2010

Posts: 2,130

Likes: 1,513

From: Medford MA

Bikes: Ron Cooper touring, 1959 Jack Taylor 650b ladyback touring tandem, Vitus 979, Joe Bell painted Claud Butler Dalesman, Colin Laing curved tube tandem, heavily-Dilberted 1982 Trek 6xx, René Herse tandem

Shimano XTR M952, long cage.

For friction or indexed, it works great. Got a nice light action, so it works with Simplex levers. Can probably work with bigger than 34t cogs using one of those drop-down link things. Reasonably svelte at 210g or so. Sealed ball bearing pulleys - even the centeron pulley has ball bearings in it, which slide side to side. Brilliant mech.

I have one on my Trek (shifted by retrofriction barcon), on my Colin Laing tandem (shifted by Shimano indexed for 9), and on my Ron Cooper (shifted by Suntour levers).

__________________
Owner & co-founder, Cycles René Hubris. Unfortunately attaching questionable braze-ons to perfectly good frames since about 2015. With style.

Reply

7