Hi Joe, Thanks for your observation. In the many generations of this bike I ran 105 9 speed brifters with this derailleur. It shifted “ok” but not great. I was told that with the Shadow XT mech that the road and mountain parted ways and weren’t compatible. Of course I’d also used those on my cross race bike and crashed in a sand pit filling the right side with sand. 😐
This will only be an issue if I can’t get 8 speed cassettes of good quality. I just did a 35 mile ride with 3000 feet climbing going over Paris mountain. At several points along the 2 mile 1000 ft climb the grade is well over 10% and at the finish it’s over 15%. Sitting and spinning at 80-90 rpm on those climbs is a revelation. But when we go up we must also go down. The 113 gear inch 46-11 is pretty fast and I rarely spun out descending. John On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 2:07 PM Joe Bernard <[email protected]> wrote: > Correctamundo, I've used that derailer with those 9-speed bar-ends. Easy > peasy if you switch to a Shimano/SRAM 9 cassette. > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/32313e03-6a92-4109-bf18-be90294d41ef%40googlegroups.com > . > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALSyJaiXJ2Qq21MkXDWKEuhHfzNFpOrxNCpg2q3zqWx-JwpnfA%40mail.gmail.com.
