Originally Posted by moxfyre
Why the crude mockery of Shimano? I agree that some of their stuff is overpriced, and some of their ideas are bad... but they have been responsible for many innovations: ramped cogs (e.g. hyperglide) are probably the best improvement in derailer gearing since the slant-parallelogram rear derailer. Ramped cogs make a far greater difference than indexing as far as ease of shifting, in my opinion.
Ease of shifting? Hah. I've had HG systems before, and I can name 1000+ reasons why I hate it - I'll just name a few:
*Extremely quick wear rate on low cogs (as if traditional freewheels didn't wear fast enough already), resulting in skipping chains, bad freewheels and worn cassette cogs.
*Those damn pins!
*It is potentially disasterous to use genuine friciton levers with HG - Light Actions only, or else your chain will be skipping all over the place
*Those damn pins!
*I've yet to get anything 8-speed HG to work right. 7-speed is fine, 8-speed? Forget it.
*Those damn pins!
Not that I care - I bought 50 of them on eBay recently at fire-sale prices
Take care,
-Kurt