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I had one of these, now on my mum's bike (68x118) with a M430-8 chain set. It's lighter than the older ES25 and ES51, has a chromoly axle instead of heavier boron and has surface treatment. I didn't like the square taper I had before due to chainring wobble and I'm sure I could feel squareness. The ES300 was very easy spinning and stiff.

I'm guessing they are going to use 2 cable grooves on the cable bolt 1 for 10 speed and 1 for 11.

In the same press release they unveiled new Alivio M3100, the shifters no longer have 2 way release like M430 and M4000 and have under the bar gear indicator, it's basically a redressed Altus M2000, the rear derailleur also looks like the M2000.

I wonder if Mach1 will buy their facilities and equipment being a French company which apparently invented wheel building machines.

Brucey wrote:I am pretty sure that is not the case; shimano don't even own up to the RH part of the DH assembly coming apart, leave alone that you should use it for adjustment purposes (*).

IME every disc brake hub allows access to the LH cone and locknut once the disc is removed, be it 6-bolt or centre lock type.

(*) and you shouldn't; repeated movements of the RH cone will cause the cone threads to break through the insulation on the wires; if this goes to a dead short the generator is usually scrap.

cheers

On my RM66 front hub I couldn't get a cone spanner in the centerlock side so had to undo from the drive side, the rear hub was accessible on the disc side like normal.

Headset is 1/8" on my 1958 Elswick Lincoln Imp

On the subject of cables is flexibility or stiffness more desirable in outer cables? Shimano SP41 is stiff, Jagwire (unknown model, came with some used shifters, had a red coloured inner sheath) seems more flexible. Fibrax SP4 seems stiff in black but flexible in grey. the higher end Shimano road rear derailleurs have a new outer called OT-RS900 which seems to be coiled like a brake outer for flexibility.

Fibrax also make 'die drawn slick' inner cables in the UK they cost less than £2 each on eBay.

Normally if you buy a m5 bolt you get a 4mm Allen head, m6 bolt gets a 5mm Allen head, but Shimano bolts are m5 with a 5mm Allen head, is there a cheaper aftermarket source of these? Also the newer allen limit screws with smaller head than commonly available because the Philips drivers on multitools usually suck for JIS bolts, yet a modern PH2 screwdriver does work.

The Chuckle Brothers had a 4 wheel bike

While we're on the subject...

1) Do old downtube shifters (cyclo benelux) take smaller capagnolo head rather than modern shimano/sram head inners?



2) GB Arret levers take modern MTB brake inners, do they need ferrules?


Also, I thought all pre index stuff used 5mm gear outer

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The rear side front pivot has detached after foolishly tightening the 2mm grub screw that holds the main spring hook in place a bit too far it seems to have pressed the pivot apart maybe it was on its way out anyway. It was 2nd hand off ebay £16 in june, date code FD (2007 April) and very scratched up maybe it was inevitable.

I don't suppose there any way to fix it?

I have a RD-M4000 (with the m772 sealed jockey wheels) in its place it shifts slightly sluggishly compared to the M772 (maybe because its stiff and new). I bought it because the M772 wouldn't shift to big/big on the workstand without grumbling and would shift itself back down again, the upper jockey wheel bolt would tighten fine but undo itself under load, a potentially wheel/mech/hanger destruction waiting to happen. The cage seemed to have play in it but seemingly dissapeared after I disassembled and regreased it. I was planning on replacing the bolt with a 15mm pan head bolt wrapped in ptfe tape to simulate the unthreaded section that goes through the bushing as there is plenty of thread in the outer plate.

Standard 48t 9 speed ring

48t 10 speed ring

I recently got some 1997 Shimano Nexave BL-T400 brake levers on eBay NOS £7.50 they can be used with canti/roller and v brakes.