This speaks to me and allows me to use prior knowledge from work in an old bike shop to access a deeper understanding of the developing complexity of DT Swiss hubs.
i.e. it’s all fucked and in 30 years shops that appear well stocked now will still have boxes full of obsolete hub parts just waiting for the right customer to come along with the right bike.
I think I’m just going to get a Bitex for $150 instead.
I cant believe how good these feel. Ive only ridden them around the block, but you poke them and they go into a gear, up and down hands full at a time. They dont seem to get stuck between gears which was what I was worried about. Got a CX race to do tomoz so will see how they go there. Finally put full length housing in the OPEN so no more in and out with the BB to change a derailliuer cable. Had to also redo the brake cable inners cos new levers. Somehow I have fucked up the rear. Has about 10% power. Doesn’t feel draggy or anything. Will deal with it later.
Edit: think Ive contaminated pads with CRC after the last CX round : (
And to think they were ready to abandon the project until i said wtf is that in their proposed project board. They’re pretty sick, right?
tarcklebee for… silent partner? idk what to call it but you saved (and revived/made good again) VO, and maybe saved growtac too
Just got back from my Cross race. Didnt go as planned. Ha ha. I had the levers mounted a little loosley incase I crashed and broke them. I noticed my rear brake travel decrease after the first couple of laps, and then my rear wheel got very hard to pedal. Took a while to realise what the problem was, by then I only had a lap to go. I wont make that mistake again. On the other hand, the shifting was great. I guess a chain naturally wants to hook up on a cog rather than get stuck in transition. The friction is fully adjustable for this and there is a little shim to adjust lever reach too. I can’t tell if the innards exist to change gears from the left to the right? The cable paths are there but I just can’t imagine how it works with the existing innards.
Does anyone know which shimano pad is the same as the orange growtac one on the right? Apparently they are shimano compatible but I dont have the appropriate one in my kit.
They have some other parts kits in the works to do some silly things (want to use one lever to shift up and the other lever to shift down on a 1x setup? run a cable between the two levers so that the second lever pulls the downshift arm on the first lever. Alternatively, a kit to add a third lever that will run a dropper), but it sounds like they want to get the basic product out and released before doing all the silly stuff
Does anyone know which shimano pad is the same as the orange growtac one on the right? Apparently they are shimano compatible but I dont have the appropriate one in my kit.
The K-type pads from the flatmount calipers. Metallic: K04S-MX and K04Ti-MX. Resin: K03S-RX, K03Ti-RX, K05S-RX, and K05Ti-RX.
DUDES ROCK
Yeah, thats what I meant. Im quite keen on that functionality. Would have to match the spools in each side I guess.
Thanks for that @adem
what a fucking time to be alive
ancient aliens had this technology
but I think the Growtac could exceed it in majesty, like a setup with multiple lateral three-way cables to allow you to shift your front derailleur back and forth paddle shifted too
Damnit Fred! Why did I just buy that???
$100 on “No, this isn’t the end of the presta valve”
Neat idea though.
Just was the bike industry needs, another standard!
We once had three competing valve standards. Then the Dunlop valve was rightfully vanquished. The only recorded occurrence of a reduction in the number of standards.
Until now…