Rolf Mantel <
[email protected]> wrote:
Am 31.01.2025 um 17:01 schrieb Roger Merriman:
<https://www.bikeradar.com/news/shimano-cues-drop-bar-components>
Cues is coming to the curly bar folks! Be that roadies or Gravel folks, I
have some on the old commute beast, it seems slightly more clunky though as >> the cassette has impressive range, has made it more versatile.
But it will be challnging to upgrade my old 2x8 gravel bike:
It looks like mechanical disc brakes can only be combined with 1x drives
with no front changer.
I upgraded my 9 speed gravel bike mainly as I didn’t like cable disks
mainly lack of power, plus I found in truly bog snorkelling conditions mud
got into cable disks callipers, where as Hydraulicsbeing sealed it’s a wash off and carry on.
My bike is now mix of Tiagra (shifters and brake callipers) GRX (Rear mech
and chainset) neither is needed but upgraded/or replacement when stuff wore out. Sora (Front mech) it perhaps is a bit slow, but front mech aren’t
known for being snappy so meh!
As ever with drop bars it’s the shifters that cost £££! Derailleur aren’t
expensive even just upgrades, such as moving from Tiagra to GRX which gave
me ability to run a larger cassette plus has a clutch to keep the chain
from eating the chain stays, (£50) ish which is quite reasonable for a upgrade.
Kinda depends on what you want to do I guess, and what if anything want to upgrade, I’d expect parts to be around for years but then again I don’t routinely need new shifters or mech’s!
Roger Merriman
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