ascpgh: It's a Microshift Mezzo long cage derailleur. There is definitely some play in the pulleys, so I might start by replacing those. But I almost think that if I'm going that route I'll just get a new rear derailleur. The Altus seems like a pretty low cost test.
On Friday, June 16, 2017 at 7:48:03 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: > > What rear derailleur are you using? I don't have an answer to your > problem but am curious because I have had similar issues with my new to me > Atlantis. I've now ridden it about 600 miles trying to get used to how it > came to me. Shifting, particularly on the large cogs in back was very > finicky - sometimes noisy, sometimes skipping, sometimes hunting, sometimes > shifting on bumps. Rideable but annoying. Initially I figured I just > needed to adjust to new to me gear but patience wore thin. I thought maybe > the Shimano Deore XT derailleur was tweeked as it is pretty marked up but > first I double checked the hanger alignment and tweeked it a bit. May have > helped but still not great. Checked again, still not satisfactory. > Ditched the Silver right hand shifter as it constantly needed tightening > and installed an old Suntour barcon. That was better but still not quite > right. So, I was thinking the derailleur must be tweeked but then I > noticed that it would not hold any fine trimming in between ratchet clicks, > which seems bizarre to me. I finally decided to replace the rear derailleur > with a Suntour VxGT. That appears to have solved my problem but I lose the > chain wrap of the XT (something I'm not too concerned about because I don't > like cross chaining anyway). I had been wondering if anyone else had > similar problems and thought your problem might be related. Is there some > adjustment on the XT that I am unaware of that allows infinite trimming? -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
