Running the cable backwards around the clamp on recent Shimano rear derailleurs like the 5100. It reduces the cable pull but we’re not sure what the ratio actually ends up as.
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Crosscheck is dead, long live the BMC Monstercross!
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Is it true that gatorskins actually ride decently in FL?
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in FL they’re locally sustainably harvested
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story time: when I was stockpiling parts waiting for this frame to come in, drwelby and a few others in the PLP discord were discussing hose clamps and drilling holes to play with cable pull, and I noticed these had a cable groove that went all the way around. I wanted to run the Riv silver bar-end with a clutch dangler, and this seemed like it might do it. Andrew Major of NSMB was doing something similar right around the same time, so this earned the name “werdna routing.”
And it does work - it effectively alters the amount of cable you need to pull to move the dangler, and the Riv shifter can now move it across my 10sp cassette using all of its travel; if routed normally, it came up short. I added the barrel adjuster because there isn’t really any extra travel left in the shifter. But as you can see, the cable path is straight and clean. It almost looks like Shimano intended you to be able to do this. I wonder if any bikes have been assembled like this by accident.
In the end, though, I wasn’t completely happy with it. I had to tighten the wingnut on the shifter way down to keep it from slipping, which meant it took more effort to move the lever. The shifter having a small barrel and short lever means it doesn’t have a lot of leverage to act against the dangler, and the reverse routing adds to that.
So I now I run it routed normally, and the shifter’s a little bit easier to throw, but only hits eight of ten cogs. That’s fine, it’s flat here and I don’t really need the full range, but I’ll probably replace it with a Microshift. Maybe the Uno shifter.
I do still wonder if the backwards routing gets you close enough to the cable pull of some type of indexed shifter, though. Then you probably wouldn’t notice or care about the additional effort.
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That’s kind how the generation of pushers before the yaw type worked. There is even a little tool.
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Just need to call this to everyone’s attention
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I feel like we’ve been cheated on
PLP? what is that, the loser version of PBP?
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Besides bikes, I’m into trail building, gardening, and the history and linguistics of English (middle aged dork).
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