Hi Blakcloud You are right as rain. There's no getting around the angle that the derailleur receives the cable. On the other side, it points straight into the spokes. Now I know what that charming, tinkling sound is.
Agree that the advantage of the "slim design" is defeated by this. I'll definitely trim the cable and angle it off shortly after the anchor point. I think I can also get away with somewhat less cable housing.I Like I told Joan, I was so astonished that everything worked after setting the chain wheel/cog/jockey wheel alignments and stops according to instructions that I didn't further optimize. Thanks, Tom On Sunday, January 5, 2014 7:18:51 PM UTC-8, blakcloud wrote: > > The housing can be trimmed but it will always come in from the side, > because of the design of the Shimano Shadow XT derailleur. > > That beautiful look of the housing and cable following the lines of the > rear stay right back to the derailleur does not happen with this one. I put > one on my wife's Betty and I have one on my winter bike. I was just looking > at mine a few days ago and thinking what stupid design for a rear > derailleur. Though it seems to work. > > Also the way this is designed, the cable length passed the anchor point > has to be very short as it has a direct line right into the spokes when the > derailleur is in the largest cog. You need to trim the cable, mine is less > than an inch passed the anchor. > > The ad copy says the derailleur is less susceptible to damage because of > the slim design, but they seem to have forgotten how much that > cable/housing sticks out. > > On the Betty I have the housing trimmed pretty short, so not bad. Mine > needs a little more trimming but it is winter bike, not likely going to > happen until everything gets replaced. > > BTW, your Boulder is beautiful. I love the colour. > > > > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
