don’t do this, that specific generation of shifters are turrible
if you want to add nice shakes to 10s Shimano, and want to keep the cables under the tape, then you’re obliged to start dithering about Shimergo
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and then squirrel repeats what a friend did and buys both chorus and athena 11sp shakes, swaps the blades and polishes off the athena logos in order to get ultrashift shakes with silver alloy blades. (I ended up with the carbon bladed powershift shakes). Might have better luck finding pre 2015 ultrashift alloy bladed shakes in the US.
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forreal 5700 was pretty trash, just like 6700 and 7900 (but for some reason i saw 6700 eating more cables than anything else)
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my 6700 lasted thousands of miles without any issues.
Also did 5700 without any issues. So, can fuck the haters if you want, but know shit might fuck up. Then again, it’s bikes, so shit is gonna fuck up one way or another.
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my 5700 never ate a cable (though i have done many a shimano cable-ectomy while working in the shop) but it also never shifted as well as newer stuff (or older stuff?) and never felt that great in the hands. there was also only a pretty limited time where i pedaled bikes hard enough to not leave much weight on my hands…
6700 was a good looking group
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Into this
i love a good round of dueling anecdotes
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Or you could just buy the Athena shifter’s and then buy the ultrashift-body as a spare part for any of the 11 speed groups with the ultrashift built in, then polish/swap on the brake lever blade and hoods from your complete Atena shifter. Presto silver finish with the best shifting around! This is the Record 11s
Spare part: EC-RE100 & EC-RE101 (right and left shifter respectively).
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Also seems like a lot of work
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I know I used to. I couldn’t figure out why in races my quads were blowing up after about 2 hours, when I had been training really hard in the hills for hours. I just needed to stop sliding forward so far when the hammer was down. I didn’t even notice until we were doing some foam roller work after a stage and I realized I had no soreness at all in my glutes. When I have my Time Trialling position dialled in I can move my butt forward or back by the tiniest amount and completely take the load off one group of muscles.
Should I sell my mariachi? Torn
rip rip torn.
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So the most popular shimergo conversion is 11sp Campy shakes & 9sp Shimano cassette / chain?
9-sp dangler as well?
10s and 9s Shimano danglers are identically designed
Best conversion is 11s Campy shakes, 10s Shimano cassette/chain/dangler, with the cable routed around the far side of the bolt on the dangler (this comes from something original-gen Dura-Ace had for compatibility)
There’s also the obvious option to use 11s Campy shakes/dangler and 11s Shimano cassette/chain with no modifications or adaptations whatsoever
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I literally don’t understand why 11-speed Shimergo hacks exist, when this works so perfectly and requires no fuckery
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because people still have 10speed rears
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the 11-34 Shimano HG800 cassette addressed that part
and Campy makes medium-cage danglers these days https://www.thebikesmiths.com/products/campagnolo-potenza-11-speed-rear-derailleur?variant=12758303211554
They’ve been making medium and long cage derailleurs for a long time, for use with triples. I’ve been using a medium Centaur carbon 10-speed derailleur with my pre-2015 Record components on my NFE since it was new, along with an Ultegra chain and 11-32 cassette
what 34 cog compatible campy rears work with 2011 ultrashift athena?
old athena triple
does that centaur 10sp do 11 speed? or 10 of 11
New centaur 11 speed med cage? Can’t figure out if cable pull is signifinantly different or not. I know there’s a new wiggly shaped cage on some of the new ders but centaur 11 is straight.