Are they driving depreciation of anything that shouldn't be deprecated? Frame-specific hangers had their chance, for like 3 decades, and have been pretty much universally despised for much of that time. That's all that UDH deprecates, since it still allows all existing drivetrains.
And it's arguably much much better to have the "hanger" as specific to the derailleur. So many future options (t-type is just the first example) become opened up, while not restricting any of the current options, which is rare in this industry lately.
June 24, 2023, 8:56 a.m. - Justin White
Are they driving depreciation of anything that shouldn't be deprecated? Frame-specific hangers had their chance, for like 3 decades, and have been pretty much universally despised for much of that time. That's all that UDH deprecates, since it still allows all existing drivetrains. And it's arguably much much better to have the "hanger" as specific to the derailleur. So many future options (t-type is just the first example) become opened up, while not restricting any of the current options, which is rare in this industry lately.