Wow! Thank you, Chris, Shoji, and Skenry! I haven't ridden much (just a few mile test ride), but for the first time in a very long time I have my smallest cog back without any skipping (and three LBS's failed to figure out the problem). Shifting felt much crisper as well. I was doubtful as I was cleaning the mini-cogs and their bearings and tracking everything for the swap and re-figuring out which way the derailure arm went on because the two wheels felt the same to me. But whether it is the wheel difference or the cleaning, or both ... wow! Thank you!
Zack, give that mini-cog swap a shot. You may well be stunned! We'll see how I do after a ride or two, but if this holds and isn't some weird honeymoon period, I'm now confident in going with the 9-speed cassette, and that is exciting! With abandon, Patrick On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 2:22:32 PM UTC-6, Skenry wrote: > > Deacon, > Its worth a try, and yes, its really just that easy. > > The top pulley has a little wiggle room, to help the pulley line up with > the cog for index shifts. The lower pulley is rigid. It SHOULD give a > more precise friction shift. > > Swap them and try. Its can't hurt at all. From memory, I thinks its > just a 3mm allen bolt. Just make sure you firm them back up, maybe even > some blue locktite (or beeswax for Rivy people). If the bolt backs out > while riding you absolutely will not find all the pieces on the trailside. > > > Ask me how I know. > > Cheers, > Scott Henry > Dayton, OH > > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Deacon Patrick <lamon...@mac.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Do tell more about the pulley swap! Is it really so simple as swapping >> the pulleys? Nothing else to it? >> >> With abandon, >> Patrick >> >> >> On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 1:47:09 PM UTC-6, Zack wrote: >>> >>> Shoji - Yep, Chris suggested this to me as well, we talked it over on >>> our awesome ride out to Mason Hill this weekend. I plan on doing the >>> pulley swap regardless, but haven't done so yet. I am set on trying the 7 >>> speed out, as it's time to swap cassettes and chains anyways, and I want to >>> give it a shot. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to >> rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
