I wonder how things like that make it all the way to production. I felt like a fucking idiot when I had to use one of those until I figured out that it’s a terrible design.
Huh, I thought it was kinda nice - you just have to pull up to engage it and it turns easily.
It’s such a good derailleur for drop bar adventure bikes - it’ll easily do 11-36t with nerd cranks, more than enough range for bikepacking and no need for a goatlink or a tanpan. The clutch makes it really quiet on rough gravel/offroad. It’s probably my favorite bit of componentry in the last year or so.
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now they just need to offer some fuckin’ nerd cranks to match
still waitin’ on anyone else to leak some info on shimanos nerdcranx
wait that wasn’t an april fools gag?
not as far as I know. New salsa spec, spy shot from LBS.
Can confirm, clears 40t pie plate nicely, 1000% better shift quality compared when using a tanpan
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Still not clear on this, myself.
Isn’t it also the missing link that lets you use ultegra shakes and the XT M8000 cassette?
Yes? also any 105-11sp shakes
We still talkin’ about the RD-RX800 clutch’d ultegra dangler?
You can use that (or the non-clutch RD-R8000-GS, or the 105 RD-R7000-GS) with the 11-40 cassette. Shimano won’t tell you that you can, but you can. 11-42 is dicey unless you use a wolftooth thinggummy. 11-46 is off the table, as far as I can tell.
You’ve only got 39T of official capacity to play with, so with the 11-40, you’re limited to 10T between chainrings if you want to run a double. With the 11-42, only 8T between chainrings. You can probably push that a little, but note @Eddbread’s report here that trying to push to 45T of capacity (16T between chainrings with the 11-40 cassette) is a no-go.
I was talking about the R8000-GS shadow dangler- but that is good info on the RX800 also.
HERE YOU GO
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Man this thing… Makes me sad.
I like how they’ve gone all out. They even have T-shirts and merch at the bottom so you can express your love for this thing.
surprisingly inexpensive
most of those bikes suck but this is fuckin legit
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Hello, Arkel? Yes, I’d like one of everything, please.
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