I just looked it up. Shimano has a two year warranty on Tiagra. It could be
worth looking into.
Jay Hartman
On Sunday, January 18, 2015, John lindbergj...@hotmail.com wrote:
Towards the end of my ride today, I heard a loud crunch and my Ram lurched
to a stop. Didn't take long to figure out
Jim, the Microshift derailleurs are also rebranded and sold as the new
SunTour (Sun XCD)
On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 12:21:11 PM UTC-6, Jim Bronson wrote:
I was thinking about this some more and what it says to me is that we
should support competition. Shimano thinks we're a captive
Yes I know, but they seem to mark the derailers up quite a bit when
SunXCD gets printed on them rather than Microshift, just saying.
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Ron Mc bulldog...@gmail.com wrote:
Jim, the Microshift derailleurs are also rebranded and sold as the new
SunTour (Sun XCD)
On
I was thinking about this some more and what it says to me is that we
should support competition. Shimano thinks we're a captive audience,
while they meanwhile outsource lower end parts production to poorer SE
Asian economies and additionally with less money spent on RD. Only
the high zoot stuff
that's reverse bending fatigue - it started at that sharp corner at the
outside of the two mirrored fracture halves - not a good design
what looks porous is actually where the metal was stretching and absorbing
as much energy as possible - the flat stuff is the progressive fracture
On Tuesday,
Towards the end of my ride today, I heard a loud crunch and my Ram lurched
to a stop. Didn't take long to figure out the cause. My Shimano Tiagra RD
had separated into two pieces. The larger chunk with cable attached
wrapped around the right chainstay and lodged in my spokes. The other
Porous metallurgy? That looks pretty bad.
On Jan 20, 2015 8:03 PM, John lindbergj...@hotmail.com wrote:
Towards the end of my ride today, I heard a loud crunch and my Ram lurched
to a stop. Didn't take long to figure out the cause. My Shimano Tiagra RD
had separated into two pieces. The
Glad no damage to you.
I haven't used Tiagra, but Sora triple front derailleurs I've had have also
just broken. Same failure more than once, the metal arm that holds the spring
just snapped. (I obviously don't save money by baying Sora anymore.)
I like Shimano a lot, especially LX, but the
