deeply disturbed..ha! That's funny. 1. *I use Silver bar ends on my Blue 2013 Sam* with the stock RBW build of the time Deore front derailer and Deore rear derailer, both, with a non-stock 8-speed Hyperglide cassette, that I got from the RBW site and everything works great. I do get some auto shifting on the cassette, and the chain sometimes jams when shifting into the big ring on the stock Sugino XD triple crank. But that all may be operator error. It all works just fine, though. Nothing to complain about.
2.* I also use Silver bar ends with my Bleriot* and a Microshift triple 9-speed front derailer, SunXCD rear derailer, an SRAM 8-speed cassette and chain and a Sugino triple crankset, and that setup seems to work better so far. But its a different bike and drivetrain. The SUNxcd derailer is like 230 grams or something, so probably much lighter than an Altus (314 or something? I think) but significantly more expensive. I like all silver colored derailers so I got those. I also don't like putting any heavier components on a bike than I have or need to. Hard enough for me to haul up hills without making it any more difficult. So why do it if the price is doable? Anyway, I like those derailers. You may, too. You can peruse the Microsoft triples down the page here: http://www.microshift.com.tw/road_non.html SUN Xcd rear derailer here: http://sunxcd.net/rearder/ If I ever upgrade the derailers on the Sam, I will probably get the SUNxcd rear and Microshift 8 speed, unless I find anything that I'd like to try better. I think RBW has a front derailer that's all silver too by IRD here: http://www.rivbike.com/product-p/d11.htm -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
