Same here. My Atlantis has a 24/34/44 triple, and the Altus handles it fine. IIRC, the Altus is less than $30 at Rivendell (if they have them to sell).
dougP On Monday, June 21, 2021 at 6:01:46 AM UTC-7 Bill Schairer wrote: > I ran an Altus on my Atlantis with a 12-36 9 speed cassette and a 42/34/19 > triple for a week on the GDMBR and had no troubles other than being laughed > at by another cyclist for my selection of a rear derailleur. What can I > say - it worked. I decided to switch to the Altus for that ride because I > had it and it has amazing chain wrap, which I thought would be desirable > with that 19t granny. It has been two years now and it is still on the > bike. > > Bill S > San Diego > > On Sunday, June 20, 2021 at 8:51:11 PM UTC-7 Joe Bernard wrote: > >> What Doug said, it should be fine, Shimano rear derailers are usually >> good for pushing a couple teeth bigger than listed. I believe - this is >> math stuff I don't fully understand - some of the concern comes from if >> you're running a wide-range triple crank *and *a big cassette..at some >> point in there things get screwy. But most of us don't run triples that way >> and you may not even have a big ring, just guard-middle-small. I say give >> it a whirl! >> >> Joe Bernard >> >> On Sunday, June 20, 2021 at 6:20:31 PM UTC-7 Michael Baquerizo wrote: >> >>> bought a 11-36t cassette for my new appa and already have some altus' >>> that i'd like to use ( i guess i have back up shimano rear in case they >>> dont) but i realized it's supposed to be 34t max. anyone get it past that? >>> tried looking elsewhere to no avail. >>> >>> keep seeing altus' on riv builds and it's growing on me aesthetically, >>> in a riv sort of way. my back up is an m952 xtr rear. not a huge fan of the >>> charcoal color so i'm not super excited to use it, but i guess i can get >>> over that pretty quickly >>> >>> >>> -- 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/38fb1ca9-7a6f-4ad1-bd38-4bd84cc9b20cn%40googlegroups.com.
