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Internal hub gears
full outers. Slick shifting for years.
Electric
i rub mine in shit and grit bung it in the shed for a week then spray gt85 all over the disc rotors just befpre heading out.
mixed results so far
Rohloff. 😉
On derailleur gears, I found middleburn cable pulses + full length outerw to be the big thing. Replacing worn jockey wheels can also improve things a lot.
I grind the outer cable ends so they are completely square and fit into the ferules can help,One other thing thats overlooked is the cassette or chain set sprockets not positioned properly on the free hub carrier or crank-set causing the ramps to be in the wrong place hth
Wow..some folk go to a lot of effort here!
I just use full shimano outers and 1.1mm inners. Combined with knowing how to set up my gears this gives me perfect shifting for months with minor barrel adjustment.
middleburn cable pulses
Gah! That should have been "cable oilers"' obviously. Damned auto-correct! 😕
andyv - Member
Go singlespeed...
ottocat - Member
Internal hub gears
PhilO - Member
Rohloff.
+1 🙂
Limit screws do nothing for general indexing. They can only affect gear changes into the highest and lowest gears but if they are set too wide they won't even do that. In decending order of importance the things that improve shifting are
1. A clean, well lubricated, unworn drivetrain
2. Clean, well lubricated cables (personally I use XTR)
3. Frame/hanger alignment
4. Quality of mech and shifters.
Sounds like a pretty good summary to me gonefishin, thanks.
My shifting has been so-so since fitting a Trex. I bent my hanger the other night, put a new one on and shifting is loads better, so it seems my hanger has been invisibly bent for a while from some crash or other.