XT shadow mech on mine and it is perfect. As is the STX on my old bike and 105 on the road bike. Sure it's lacking 1 barrel adjuster compared to older MTB setups, but the one on the shifter has more than enough range.
All were set up by following the instructions on the Park Tools website.
Only problem I've had is the front mech getting clagged with snow mid-ride, but after letting it defrost and then hoovering out the dried mud it worked perfectly again.
I run Sram X9 rear mechs on both my MTB's and and the shifting has been really good on them compared to Shimano ones I had. On the rough stuff Shimano's 2:1 ratio just skips gears constantly and just don't compare to Sram's 1:1 in comparison. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZQf1bduGYs
SLX here, fine.
You have to give it a bit of attention now and then (barrel adjuster) if you feel things changing for the worse.
On the ride on sat last week it was pissing down all day, mud all over the shop and i didnt have to tweak the indexing once.
XTR shifter, SP41 cables, XT shadow rear mech, XT sprockets and SRAM chain. All on an '04 enduro too.
I think sometimes people cut the outers a smidge too short which can cause problems when the suspension is moving.
full length cable outers = a fighting chance of good shifting
God is trying to tell you to get a single speed...
If you're having problems with shifting on a shadow mech it's almost certainly down to the cable housing length on the last run of outer casing, too long and the mech won't operate correctly. Seen it loads of times, I'll see if I can't dig out the Shimano documents and give you more info later.
never have anything but silent buttery shifting myself.
and never had much of a problem with any level of mech either, acera through to XTR.
i cant understand the people crunching around trails on 2k bikes and then mangling the drive chains by not maintaning them or setting them up properly
it makes me cry a little bit.
Gore rideon sealed cables for me.
Haven't had to **** about with gears at all since I put them on the bike. Took a while to install but well worth it. I really can't stand fiddling around with bloomin gears....
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