Nivex derailleurs and most associated parts are now in stock! It’s been a long journey, with R&D starting more than four years ago. When you make a derailleur that’s not just a copy of what’s already out there, but fundamentally different, you’re starting almost from zero.
Major facepalm in the first paragraph. I mean fuck you’re still using the actual name of the thing you copied, don’t fucking tell me it’s fundamentally different.
And hell the word “fundamental” meaning at the core or central to a thing is basically what you are claiming, that you took the fundamentals of the Nivex and developed something more than an exact 1:1 copy. Sheesh make up your mind.
Furthermore, this aesthetic is for 90’s MTBs, not planey frechfit stuff.
impossible to read this as anything other than “Rene Herse did 9-11”
I sort of appreciate the stupid dangler but the shifter is awful shartmo. That little locknut/screw combo as a travel limit? A frickin’ toothed lock washer on a $300 gob of aluminum? gtf outta here, the lever itself looks kinda okay but the rest of it looks like my grandpa had to rig it back together to get the harvest done in time
The best part about this announcement is how he talks about how modern indexed shifting is so good that its like pushing a button and takes all the magic out of the experience of indirectly fondling your rear cassette through a series of cables and levers - and then they go on to say that the product is currently index-only, friction TBD. Thousands of words to justify to the purchaser why it index shifts like shit.
It’s Index only ??? I thought it was for a friction shifters wet dream. Yeah that’s total BS. Special frame requirements for a system that is super expensive, mechanical and at best no better at indexing than the big 3.
It will be able to, but for some reason they haven’t released that insert yet. I assume some part of the lever falls into a little detent for indexed, and the friction one is dentent-less. But the friction one is apparently still in development. This means that as pictured, the whole system is incompatible with his dumbass 6 speed cassette in the ad copy.
The fact that the whole selling point of this is the lever feel and its been released without any way to really feel the lever is so patently insane… Its really something that they turned off the comments on the blog post and havent put it in IG yet
I think friction shifting is fun, but I assume anyone who is going to buy the gadget to friction shift shimano 11 has already tried it with a deluxe ratcheting shifter and knows how easy it is. that shimano jawn appears to have the same mount point as everything else
