1x9 on my Appaloosa includes long cage XT Shadow RD, XT 11-36 cassette with sugino xd600 crankarms and 34t 100bcd single speed(no ramps) chainring. I believe the BB is a Sugino 68x 107, which get the chainline/center of cassette close to perfect. No retention devices used. Had the same setup on my Hunqapillar. Never any issue with dropped chains. I do like to keep chain as short as possible. Long cage RD is certainly not required by any means. I'd go short cage if I had one!
-Bryan On Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 12:17:08 PM UTC-4, Jazzman Ruben wrote: > > Rivies, > > Are any of y'all using a 1x friction shifting setup? What are you using? > Does it work well? > > I've been doing this for about a year/year and a half now. I pulled off > the front derailer and cable, the stock rings off my Sugino and put on a > "USAMade" (link <https://usamade.myshopify.com>) chainring on with some > single speed crank bolts. Otherwise, the drivetrain (silver shifters and > antique Deerhead RD, 8 speed wide range cassette) remained in tact. > Initially, I didn't have any chain drops. Lately, I've been dropping the > chain a few times a week. > > I can't imagine that I wore out the chainring this fast. I wonder if the > ol' Deerhead is getting tired? Do I need an RD with a clutch? > > -JR > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
