Yes, fair enough. I probably should have explained that... I've had consistent problems friction shifting (which I slightly prefer with DT shifters) a 9 speed cassette. I know some people have no trouble with it, but I tried it for months and could never quite get the hang of it. Ghost shifting whenever I cranked down on a hill. Hence going down to a 7sp after a bunch of research reading older threads on this wonderful forum. The nine speed components that I'm using 'shouldn't' have any issue running a 7 speed cassette. The shifters are friction and the derailleur is a derailleur. And I had a good deal of the drivetrain on hand, so it wasn't too expensive. I basically just bought the cassette and spacer ring...and upgraded to Silver shifters while I was at it. That said, if this doesn't work out, I'll just go back to indexing, which won't be the end of the world.
And Steve is correct. The cassette is definitely hyper glide and is properly spaced with a spacer I notched to fit over the rivets in the back of the cassette. Upon closer inspection recommended by Deacon Patrick, it appears the teeth are designed to vary in horizontal position pretty considerably on this cassette (more so on others I've seen) and some are getting pretty danged close to the inside edges of the chain. So I'm inclined to think a 7/8 chain may in fact be the issue. I'll pick one up at the LBS this afternoon and see if that fixes it. Thanks for everyone's input. I know virtual mechanic-ing isn't easy! Eric On Sunday, December 4, 2016 at 9:46:42 AM UTC-5, masmojo wrote: > > Sorry if I missed something by not reading all the previous posts, but I > am just scratching my head at your component choices clearly the issue is > trying to use 7 speeds on a 9+ set up. If your chain and derailleurs are > optimized for more then 7 speeds then why not run more? You've already > dropped the cash for the Wolftooth, derailleurs, etc. > Why not just throw as many cogs on your cassette as it's designed to hold > and get on with the program? Running 7 speeds is fine if you got a bunch of > 7 speed gear laying around, but if not, why bother? > I am running a 1 X 10 on my Atlantis & having no issues! > Maybe I missed something, but it sounds like you are making your life > unnecessarily difficult! -- 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.
