RunForTheHills
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Of course you will want to use a 180 or 203mm rotor.
getting a regular bike after my battery fails?
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fooferdoggie
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no I will stick with 160's, that's what the fork is rated for. 180s would be nice. no need for 203's
RunForTheHills
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Sorry, I got confused because my frame is post mount and the new Disc Trucker is flat mount.
fooferdoggie
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thats strange. yaI did not realize the difference. well they do have a round group on it so I guess that's why. still waiting for the front shifter parts and the bottom bracket. but I can't do all the work on one weekend anyway. I wish I could find a 10 speed xt front shifter but I can only find the 12.
fooferdoggie
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looks like 2019 frames had the post mount. bummer but its easy to fix.
RunForTheHills
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I have 180mm discs on mine, but it seems that flat mount brakes have a 160mm limit.
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Those are flat mounts indeed. In itiration of the Klein mount. To run 160 mm rotors you would need a caliper which is designed for flat mount. I have to find a manufacturer which has an adapter to run a 140 mm + adapter on a FM frame... And I ve seen a lot of interesting combinations.
stompandgo
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Front or rear?
kevinmccune
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can you not use the 12 spd shifter,allowing for a couple of ghost gears?
fooferdoggie
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No one could tell me if it would work right. but I have it so I may test it.
Stefan Mikes
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AFAIK the 12 speed shifter produces a different stroke for the gear change than the 10-s one. Impractical.
Elaborating: There is a different distance between the cassette cogs for the 12 and the 10 speed system. The shifter is indexed for a given indexing, or the cog distance.
Elaborating: There is a different distance between the cassette cogs for the 12 and the 10 speed system. The shifter is indexed for a given indexing, or the cog distance.
fooferdoggie
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ya according to this it wont work. it may work but it would need testing.
fooferdoggie
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I am taking the front, not the back. The only difference there is the chain width.
RunForTheHills
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Yeah, that might work.
fooferdoggie
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What sucks is the trek needed a new chain new cassette new chainring, and there is still a little glitch on shifting from 9 to 8 so maybe new jockey wheels? and new brake pads. I dont usually have so many parts wear out and I need to spend money on the new bike build.
RunForTheHills
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Well, it's your main transportation, so you have to do the maintenance. That reminds me that I need to get the oil changed in my car next week.
fooferdoggie
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do it, just it all wore out at the same time. I think its the 3rd cassette and the 3rd chainring. The first one was aluminum and was bad in about 2000 miles the other two did 18k between them. I jsut dont want to spend a lot of money on a bike that will now be a backup bike right now. but now I iwll be able to compare drivetrain wear pretty well between mid drives and human drives.
stompandgo
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Show us a pic of the jockey wheels, cleaned up.
Define the glitch. Does it overshift or undershift? Before I'd replace the jockey wheels I'd check the derailleur hanger alignment.
fooferdoggie
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They looked ok last time I cleaned them a month ago. But it does not want to go from the 9th to the 8th cog. I forgot I also had the housing replaced, which was why because of that glitch. But it did not fix it. Neither did replacing the chain and the cassette.
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