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Front Mech's: Spot the Difference
I have in hands one Shimano XT FD-M760 front mech and another Shimano
Deore (not LX, just Deore) mech. After a careful inspection I conclude the differences a + Colour. + Adjuster screws have 'H' and 'L' engravings on the XT model. That's it. Seem the same weight, material, quality, fairly identical in every respect. Why buy an LX or XT front mech? Regards, Duncan |
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Rob Morley wrote in
t: I suspect the XT has either pivot bushes or hard anodising, either of which should improve the durability. Just a guess though. It usually (or used anyway) to have much better jockey wheel bearings as well. -- Tony " I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." Bertrand Russell |
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"Tony Raven" wrote in message ... Rob Morley wrote in t: I suspect the XT has either pivot bushes or hard anodising, either of which should improve the durability. Just a guess though. It usually (or used anyway) to have much better jockey wheel bearings as well. No on a front ;-) Jc |
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Tony Raven wrote:
It usually (or used anyway) to have much better jockey wheel bearings as well. Hmm...my bikes are more out of date than I thought - I haven't got any jockey wheels on my front mechs! Ian |
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"Josey" jc@nospam wrote in :
"Tony Raven" wrote in message ... Rob Morley wrote in t: I suspect the XT has either pivot bushes or hard anodising, either of which should improve the durability. Just a guess though. It usually (or used anyway) to have much better jockey wheel bearings as well. No on a front ;-) Memo to self: Do not post before first coffee of the day ;-) -- Tony " I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." Bertrand Russell |
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I suspect the XT has either pivot bushes or hard anodising, either of which should improve the durability. Just a guess though. For whatever reason, the front shifting has always been sub-par even though at least 3 cycle shops have had a go at servicing it (never stays good for long). Now I've fitted the XT pod and mech it shifts like a dream. Got a similar improvement by swapping the brakes from the OEM non-adjustable Juicy-3 to the oh so easily adjustable Juicy-7's. Well happy with the setup now :-), shame the racing season's over :-( I think the pattern here is, if you want a job done well, do it yourself, as a task at a cycle shop could be limited by time/profit and no one cares as much how well your bike's dialed in as you. Regards, Duncan |
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I think the pattern here is, if you want a job done well, do it yourself, as a task at a cycle shop could be limited by time/profit and no one cares as much how well your bike's dialed in as you. Talking about servicing it yourself, I have just found this Youtube video on setting up indexed Shimano gears. I imagine that most URC'ers can do this in their sleep ;-) but I found it really useful when fettling my new/secondhand MTB. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkzvfCaIbyQ Cheers -- Geomannie |
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Am Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:32:09 -0000 schrieb Duncan Smith:
I have in hands one Shimano XT FD-M760 front mech and another Shimano Deore (not LX, just Deore) mech. After a careful inspection I conclude the differences a + Colour. + Adjuster screws have 'H' and 'L' engravings on the XT model. That's it. Seem the same weight, material, quality, fairly identical in every respect. Why buy an LX or XT front mech? As you say - there seems to be little difference between Deore and xt front mech. Just have a look at these two photos - nearly exactly the same http://www.paul-lange.de/bilder/shimano/Produkte/2006/MTB/DEORE/FD-M530.jpg/plimage_details http://www.paul-lange.de/bilder/shimano/Produkte/2006/MTB/DEORE_XT/FD-M760A.jpg/plimage_details For most uses a Deore front mech is good enough. My ancient Deore LX front mech from 94 is still working fine. For other components, especially the hubs, there are though quite significant differences between Deore and Deore XT. Andreas |
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Rob Morley wrote:
In article . com, Duncan Smith says... I have in hands one Shimano XT FD-M760 front mech and another Shimano Deore (not LX, just Deore) mech. After a careful inspection I conclude the differences a + Colour. + Adjuster screws have 'H' and 'L' engravings on the XT model. That's it. Seem the same weight, material, quality, fairly identical in every respect. Why buy an LX or XT front mech? I suspect the XT has either pivot bushes or hard anodising, either of which should improve the durability. Just a guess though. i've noticed that the deore rear shifter on my still fairly new MTB doesn't shift anything like as well as the old bike's STX one, or rather in the ooh ****! i need gear X it makes a lot more fuss than the old one which might make a clunk but does it with out a problem. i suspect that as someone further up the thread said may not be 100% ajusted. after all there is differnce from being able to shift to all gears and being correctly ajusted. roger -- www.rogermerriman.com |
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