Extreme value in the is 8 speed 12-46 T clutch derailleur drivetrain. $88 for the derailleur, cassette and shifter gets you a shifting miles for your MTB.
Thanks to microSHIFT for providing a test groupset.
Weights:
Cassette- 579 g | Amazon
Derailleur- 388 g | Universal Cycles
Shifter- 155 g | Amazon
KMC 8 Spd chain $15.99 | Amazon
30T Narrow wide chainring (104 BCD) $14.99 | Amazon
Just bought everything from UC. Piece of cake! Showed as in stock, was having a dickens of a time finding the derailleur in stock anywhere but saw this and bingo. Replacing drivetrain on Spec Riprock 24. My kid kept yelling back to me when climbing “I need another gear!!! Where’s my granny gear!” This should fix… haha! Kinda wish the front chainring and cranks weren’t riveted together otherwise I’d do a 30t up there too…
Thx!
Newbie question, once you have it set to use the clutch mode, why would you ever turn it off? Another way to put it, what’s the reason of having both options in a derailleur instead of it being in clutch mode all the time?
Thanks
This is a stiffer clutch setting and to get the wheel off you want to disengage the clutch mech to get slack in the chain.
If I understand your question, you need to disengage the clutch to work on the derailleur or to remove the wheel or at least that is how it is with other clutch derailleurs I’ve used.