Forgot to post earlier but my £80 cranks arrived earlier this week, full retail jobbies, with lockring and box etc. RRP of £145 on the box. Well pleased.
New XT even come with invisiframe style tape on them from the factory to stop them polising through!
I got my 165mm slx delivered too. In a blue Shimano box. Lockring included too. Looks great. Now to source a 30t direct mount ring
What about the lockring tool, if you haven't already got one, the blue ones on ebay for around £7 made by risk work great.
@breninbeener Probikekit have the XT 30tooth in stock cheaper than anywhere else. Thats what I bought. Free postage too.
Ref tool - its the same as one the various Shimano BB standard tools.
Picked up my slx cranks today more black than silver, which is great
(chainring from probikekit arrived today too)
And the Kings X Evans store have quite a lot of shoes half price- five ten freerider pros £60!
55mm chainline does seem a bit wild!
I have a few spacers kicking about so might try and shim the cranks over a bit if it's a problem
But really pleased so far
(mine didn't come with the chainring tool it's supposed to, but at this price Ill live with it!
No chainring tool with my SLXs either.
A Blackspire snaggletooth ring reduces chainline by 1mm and its reversible so running it the other way turns a M8100 to 55mm chainline, is there anything out there to turn an M8120 into 52mm chainline.
You could shim out one of the aliexpres direct mount to 4bolt adaptors
Or swap around the axle spacers with these
Anyway very happy with mine
55mm is 148 boost.
It is not, but Shimano seem to be pushing it with their latest offerings
They do in XT for example:
52mm for 142/148 rears
55mm for 148 rears
56.5mm for 157 rears.
Depends on frame also. Some frames spec 55mm for 148 rear, but rear is offset 3mm.
55mm front on a 148 symmetrical rear gives a horrible chain line when in the lower (dinner plate sprockets).
Timely article on NSMB:
https://nsmb.com/articles/were-being-slowly-boiled-super-boost/
@gordon - Are your shifters ones with the windows telling you what gear you are in? and do you actually use this....
If so, you should be able to remove the window and fit a blaking plate, which would then mean that your shifter would fit between the brake mount and grip.
Ads678, yes, they have the windows. I did wonder if I could do something like that as its the window part that takes up space. I'll have a look for backing plates, good shout, thanks!
Just been looking at the levers on the M7100 and the clamp is in a different place to my older SLX M7000 and M675 levers, the clamp on the new levers is exactly where I would want my rear shifter and dropper lever to be. Weird.
Fitted, bled and pavement tested this morning, nice brakes. The nearly new Deore ones that came off are for sale !
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Righto. Am going to fit my brakes today. Never fitted new brakes, and will need to shorten the rear hose. Can someone give me an easy step by step process to fit these, ideally without needing to bleed them? Do I fit on the bike, or on a flat surface and then install onto the bike?
And, I've seen people refer to a lever bleed. What does that mean and how do I do it?
Thanks.
I fitted levers and calipers to the bike, worked out where the hoses needed cutting to and cut them with a stanley knife on the work bench. Clamped the hose with yellow blocks that I already had and pushed the inserts in. Then inserted hoses into the levers and tighten up the nuts. Didn't need to bleed.
What’s that little red SRAM widget called that allows you to join two hydraulic hoses together? I already have one somewhere in the shed, but I can’t find it and need to order another. Got some of these brakes when the PSA was announced (thanks OP), but need to fit the rear on my internally routed Merida Big Trail winter bike.
Rockshox barb connector will work
Thanks, “Rockshox” was the magic keyword I was missing when searching the web. I’m bound to find the one I have in the shed now that I’ve ordered another.
