My Alfine 8 rear hub threw it's guts yesterday in the Quantocks 🙁
The only silver lining is that when they die they default to bottom gear, so I was able to finish the ride. Albeit spinning like a madman on anything not uphill!
It appears to be terminal, or at least beyond what I can fix at home.
Anyway, I'm thinking of going for 'normal' gears, as I already have a back wheel that I ran SS for a while.
Doing a bit of browsing the Microshift XCD 11 speed groupset seems a very good deal - I can get shifter, derailleur, cassette and 11 spd chain for £120 from Bike24. Which is £40-50 cheaper than a similar SLX setup from CRC.
It's touted as their top of the range groupset on the Microshift site, so is it SLX or XT level?
Anyone got any real world experience of it?
Nope then! 🙂
I ordered some anyway, so I'll report back when they arrive from Deutschland.
Someone on here put a post up about the groupo a few days ago mate.
I can't even remember what the post was actually about but might be worth a search.
I can't get the search function to work from my mobile or I'd post a link.😟
A one line review for anyone thinking of getting a Microshift setup...
Very impressed, well made, easy to setup/index, and faultless performance on its first ride.
The link above is from 9 years back, I can't find the recent one. Bah!
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A one line review for anyone thinking of getting a Microshift setup…Very impressed, well made, easy to setup/index, and faultless performance on its first ride.
Got some pics of it all fitted mate? What cassette you using?👍
I'll do a longer review when I've got a few more miles on it, no pics yet.
11-46 cassette, aluminium spider on all but the top 3 gears, biggest two cogs are aluminium, rest are steel. Weight of cassette was just under 500g on my kitchen scales.
The rear mech looks and feels very well finished, I'd say closer to XT rather than SLX in quality. All the pivots felt nice and tight, no looseness or rattles.
The cable path looks cleaner and shorter than Shimano mechs.
The clutch mechanism is interesting, as it's a ratchet and pawl like a rear hub. Seems very good in use, no chain noise when riding down some pretty rough trails today.
Shifter is nice and crisp in action, you can do multiple up shifts, but only down one at a time.
It's a fixed band, so not compatible with i-Spec, etc.
Fitted it with a Sram PC1110 chain, ran/shifted with no issues.
Oh, and apparently all the bits are cross compatible with 11 speed Shimano.