Quote from: lagerstarfish on July 18, 2012, 04:54:22 pmQuote from: tregiffian on July 18, 2012, 04:40:46 pmDid anyone see Wiggins out of the saddle for more than an instant? Top man.using a Shimano XT MTB cassette apparently, coz he doesn't like getting out of the saddlehttp://bicycling.com/blogs/thisjustin/2012/07/16/tour-tech-wiggos-di2-derailleur-hack/Yeah, saw that. Having same dilemma with my own set up at the minute as changing the cassette from 11-26 means changing dérailleur and chain as well, unless anyone knows of a replacement cage (medium or long) which will fit a 2012 Sram Red rear dérailleur??
Quote from: tregiffian on July 18, 2012, 04:40:46 pmDid anyone see Wiggins out of the saddle for more than an instant? Top man.using a Shimano XT MTB cassette apparently, coz he doesn't like getting out of the saddlehttp://bicycling.com/blogs/thisjustin/2012/07/16/tour-tech-wiggos-di2-derailleur-hack/
Did anyone see Wiggins out of the saddle for more than an instant? Top man.
Yeah, saw that. Having same dilemma with my own set up at the minute as changing the cassette from 11-26 means changing dérailleur and chain as well, unless anyone knows of a replacement cage (medium or long) which will fit a 2012 Sram Red rear dérailleur??
Quote from: north_country_boy on July 18, 2012, 05:27:06 pmYeah, saw that. Having same dilemma with my own set up at the minute as changing the cassette from 11-26 means changing dérailleur and chain as well, unless anyone knows of a replacement cage (medium or long) which will fit a 2012 Sram Red rear dérailleur??Cheers, very useful to hear others thoughts on this. As far as I know it's possible to get away with short cage + mtb cassette provided you are very very strict with avoiding dodgy front/back combinations, i.e. don't shift to bigger than half way on the big ring or to a less dangerous but more retarded-looking extent, smaller than half way on the small ring. If you get it wrong then the consequences can be of the completely horrendous, everything stops, explodes, and you inevitably end up tits-over-arse type stuff.I don't know how true/practical that actually is. It is dependent on cassette size so for example moving up to a 12-28 is obviously less dodgy than sticking a 12-36 on the back.Are you running a compact? What size cassette are you thinking of changing to? 26 is already a pretty big road cassette. You can get long cage apex rear mechs (that's what Contador was using, alongside a 11-32(?) cassette on a compact chainset in the hills a couple of years back) and as of this season (or possibly next) sram have made longer derailers in rival and red too.Will presumably still need a bigger chain.I ride a triple
Would it be possible to buy the long cage parts and change your own derailleur? I found this spare parts catalogue http://www.sram.com/sites/default/files/techdocs/2012_sram_extdt_wheel_hub_spc_rev_a.pdf which would let you know which serial number parts you needed, could perhaps order from LBS?
Is it safe to say that wiggins deserves to be in the yellow jersey now?
The whole thing is incredible.
marred only by what was truly the worst rendition of the national anthem ever, by Leslie Garrett!
Get the fuck in