Think I finally have my Musashi set up properly !
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 7:12 pm
My Musashi has been in the garage for a bit.....
From day one I could never get all three chain rings (thanks FF) as they FD fouled on the boom. Well, made a thin alu shoe and crimped and bonded to the inside edge of the FD cage.....it gives that extra "push" needed to get onto the granny ring !
The next problem is the FD shifter.....the original TT500 bar end shifters were just terrible, always just in the wrong place and would catch your thighs.....so I tried so SRAM X7 shifters worked brilliantly on the RD but not so good for the FD.... Occasionally it would over shift and derail the chain, it was just too hard to get it tuned just right...... Then I found Paul's thumbies..... Dug out the FD TT500 shifter and mounted it to the thumbies and now as its an old style friction shifter you can control the FD perfectly......
Now to the RD..... The original SRAM Rival was ok but never brilliant and seemed to go out of tune easily...... I had wanted to upgrade to a new cassette (PG1070 11-36) so fitted that onto my rear wheel (had to add a few extra links into the chain to cope with the bigger 1st gear), then needed a long cage RD, so picked up a SRAM X0 with long cage with red detailing (bling !)....on a recommendation from a MTBer at work also upgraded to Token ceramic jockey wheels (in red)..... Ain't Evans Cycles great ? $45 for the cassette and $160 for the X0 RD.....
Anyway, on the stand the RD set up was very easy, top and bottom limits set.....the indexing with the X7 shifter was spot on......
So yesterday it was finally sunny, so took the Musashi for a spin......60km later in 2 hours I got home.....the X0 is a brilliant piece of kit, really nice shifting, very crisp and precise.....the FD shifted nicely with the TT500 on the Paul's thumbies......the last niggle I have is whether to ditch the chain tube.....
William, what do you think ?
I'll take some photos to show off the blingy bits.....
I have to shorten the cables, what's the best thing to prevent the cable from fraying ?
Also have a set of new Velocity wheels as well to try out.......
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From day one I could never get all three chain rings (thanks FF) as they FD fouled on the boom. Well, made a thin alu shoe and crimped and bonded to the inside edge of the FD cage.....it gives that extra "push" needed to get onto the granny ring !
The next problem is the FD shifter.....the original TT500 bar end shifters were just terrible, always just in the wrong place and would catch your thighs.....so I tried so SRAM X7 shifters worked brilliantly on the RD but not so good for the FD.... Occasionally it would over shift and derail the chain, it was just too hard to get it tuned just right...... Then I found Paul's thumbies..... Dug out the FD TT500 shifter and mounted it to the thumbies and now as its an old style friction shifter you can control the FD perfectly......
Now to the RD..... The original SRAM Rival was ok but never brilliant and seemed to go out of tune easily...... I had wanted to upgrade to a new cassette (PG1070 11-36) so fitted that onto my rear wheel (had to add a few extra links into the chain to cope with the bigger 1st gear), then needed a long cage RD, so picked up a SRAM X0 with long cage with red detailing (bling !)....on a recommendation from a MTBer at work also upgraded to Token ceramic jockey wheels (in red)..... Ain't Evans Cycles great ? $45 for the cassette and $160 for the X0 RD.....
Anyway, on the stand the RD set up was very easy, top and bottom limits set.....the indexing with the X7 shifter was spot on......
So yesterday it was finally sunny, so took the Musashi for a spin......60km later in 2 hours I got home.....the X0 is a brilliant piece of kit, really nice shifting, very crisp and precise.....the FD shifted nicely with the TT500 on the Paul's thumbies......the last niggle I have is whether to ditch the chain tube.....
William, what do you think ?
I'll take some photos to show off the blingy bits.....
I have to shorten the cables, what's the best thing to prevent the cable from fraying ?
Also have a set of new Velocity wheels as well to try out.......
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