This has been somewhat of my experience as well, though mostly on hills. I've been too lazy to try out the 8sp cassette I've had sitting around for... a very long time, so I've just gotten used to shifting early or going an extra click and trimming.
Data points: SunTour ratchet bar-cons, Shimano (HG?) 9sp 11-32, Shimano XT medium cage RD. Jeff Hagedorn San Diego, CA USA On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 3:01:54 AM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote: > > I've never been able to get friction to work reliably on 9sp in the > situations I need. Heading into hills, starting out, anywhere where the > torque amps up I would get the dreaded ghost shift and CH CHUNK! I would > stick with 8sp, personally. > > -J > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
