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Is the bird frame for sale and is it a ML?
Glad the new bike is fun!
Afraid it was a medium and it’s sold already.
Got the shock to sell though - Fox DHX2 factory only 8 months old and lightly used. 210x55 with a basically new lower Fox bearing mount. 400 or 450lb Cane Creek spring. Gutted it won’t fit the Sentinel (trunnion mount on there plus different stroke and eye to eye shock).
2nd ride in the local ish woods. Fine on the climb - first run trail and a stick jumped up and snapped my xt rear mech off in the back wheel 🤣
I need to give it a thorough check over wheel wise but the hanger is still straight and the wheel still seems to be round. Tracked down the only 12 speed mech I could find locally after ringing 5 shops - another XT at £103 🤦♂️. Brexit / Covid sucks with all this rrp actually being the price now.
That's crappy luck even at the best of times.
Yeah I’ve literally never broken a mech before. Did one hanger previously on a Boardman I had - that would probably have been preferable as it’s £25 for a hanger vs £103 for a new mech. It seems 12 speed mechs are sacrificial these days rather than the hanger!
I've got a theory that mech hangers have had to get stronger.
I think wide range cassettes put more leverage through the hanger. I find I have to retweak the mech hanger every few rides to keep the shifting sweet. No reason to think I've knocked it. I know 11 and 12 speed is more sensitive to hanger alignment, but once it's straight, it should stay straight.
I snapped an xt 12 speed a few months back, right through the metal, they’re not that strong unfortunately, and extremely expensive now.
Still, got a spare cage, clutch, etc if the new one goes wrong!
Yeah the mech hanger looks properly beefy. Says UDH tm on it which is a bit misleading. It’s not a SRAM UDH which would be handy - just a proprietary Transition UDH one which most of their bikes use I think.
Jockey cage, clutch and wheels are all intact so spares for the box I guess.
New XT mech feels a lot tighter than the last one - all the pivots on the old one feel distinctly secondhand.