The current set up I have on my Ram is 11-36 in the back with a 52-42 up front. I wasn't going to do the 36, but I had it and wanted to see how the derailleur would handle it. It works great, but I'll probably change it because I can't see a situation where I'll need to go that low.
On Monday, August 7, 2023 at 1:57:43 PM UTC-7 divis...@gmail.com wrote: > That's certainly my theory, but I haven't tried it with a cog that large > yet. I currently have a 14-28 6-speed Suntour mounted on the temporary > Phil+Araya rear that's there now, until I reconstruct the Phil+Mavic MA-2 > rear that I noticed as dented when I was building up the Trek. That hub > will get an axle-end swap; Phil Wood apparently used longer axle ends for > 7-speed 126 OLD hubs than for 6-speed. I'd attempted to install one of my > expanding collection of Sachs-Maillard 7-speed mountain FWs (large cogs > ranging from 28 through 34T), but the axle end didn't push the dropout of > the Raleigh out far enough to clear the smallest cog. > > For comparison purposes, the Huret/Sachs-Huret Duopars (both the Ti > original. and the all-steel Eco) are rated for 36T. But I suspect that with > a 26-28T granny in a 5-pin chainset, a 34T cog will be sufficiently capable > of pulling stumps. > > Michael Sweatman at disraeligears.co.uk > <https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site/suntour_xc_derailleur_3_pulley_system.html> > > theorizes that the Suntour 3-pulley systems can handle 38T cogs. Does > anyone actually make a freewheel that low? I suppose someone could > experiment with it in an indexed 1x system, for science. > > Peter Adler > Berkeley, CA/USA > > On Monday, August 7, 2023 at 10:30:09 AM UTC-7 alan lavine wrote: > > So it would be g ood for a large cog, like 34T, instead of a long cage > deralailer ? > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/76a8b56f-6509-4c59-8531-222377aa9d52n%40googlegroups.com.
