bicycle photo of the day
I was thinking I’d preride my Sellwood-Devil’s Backbone populaire one more time before packaging it up and submitting it to RUSA as a permanent, but I kept getting distracted by route variations (some of which were online-map-only variations; 329th St, for instance, does not become Colorado and then go into Sandy, but dead-ends at a keypad-locked gate with a big “THIS IS NOT A PUBLIC ROAD” sign by it) and some stupidly steep ramps (Proctor Road goes up an at least 20% ramp from Dodge Park Blvd to Bluff Road. Thank goodness for the recently-added 34t climbing ring.) But even though I failed the preride, I still made it up to the turnaround point and managed to get a photo of the mlcm propped up against the signpost that’s at approximately the summit of Devil’s Backbone.
Note that the old silver crankset has been replaced with a traditional compact double, in black, and that the rando bag is, once again, filled with donuts from the usual place.
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Alas, if I swapped the rear derailer for a Sram unit I’d have to replace the brifters too. That would fall into the category of real money, instead of scraping dollars out of my paypal account to buy cheap shimano parts.
Shimano road derailers aren’t supposed to work with anything larger than -27, but these ones (Sora RD-3400; the cheapest Shimano derailers I could find) work on an 11-32 cassette if I tweak the angle adjustment. I’d not want to go to a -34 or -46 cassette, however!
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Should it prove to be the case that you’re also considering the Apex rear derailleur, you might want to keep in mind that SRAM is moving the “mid-cage” – able to handle the 11-32 tooth range of the Apex cassettes – derailleurs up the food chain, and you can get one from the “Rival” groupset for a very similar price which has better idler sprockets.
(I suppose they can’t be “long-cage” because those are all “mountain”, rather than “road”.)