Perry, I'm very "thrifty" I guess you could say, I use XT level parts because back when I started, that's really where stuff started to last if you really ride hard/lots of miles/hours, these days though Deore works amazingly well and the price is amazing for what you get. That being said, there's not many things that I'd spend what I consider a fair chunk of change on, but that Madrone Derailleur is definitely one of them, in GREEN too please so that I can advertise that I'm not a slave to the Big Ss anymore. One caveat though, either refine the carbon cage so it looks like the ones pictured here for the SRAM derailleurs or make it work with these alu versions, because the one that was on there at Sea Otter was Ugly AF.
If by chance Madrone is looking for another project, they could try to replicate the "softness" of the Shimano SLX 11 speed shifter, but add the double click that XT has. All my bikes run on Shimano 10spd except one, it runs Shimano 11spd and after working on others 11spd Shimano XT equipped bikes, I opted to get the SLX shifter instead because the XT was way to stiff a push and I was right, SLX is so soft. Well as a bit of time passed, I came into possession of an 11spd XT and decided to give it a go, because honestly I do love and use that double tap trigger, but after a little while I decided to put the SLX back on to see if I was imagining the big difference, but I wasn't, the SLX stayed on, XT is in the spare parts drawer.
May 28, 2024, 10 a.m. - Lynx .
Perry, I'm very "thrifty" I guess you could say, I use XT level parts because back when I started, that's really where stuff started to last if you really ride hard/lots of miles/hours, these days though Deore works amazingly well and the price is amazing for what you get. That being said, there's not many things that I'd spend what I consider a fair chunk of change on, but that Madrone Derailleur is definitely one of them, in GREEN too please so that I can advertise that I'm not a slave to the Big Ss anymore. One caveat though, either refine the carbon cage so it looks like the ones pictured here for the SRAM derailleurs or make it work with these alu versions, because the one that was on there at Sea Otter was Ugly AF. If by chance Madrone is looking for another project, they could try to replicate the "softness" of the Shimano SLX 11 speed shifter, but add the double click that XT has. All my bikes run on Shimano 10spd except one, it runs Shimano 11spd and after working on others 11spd Shimano XT equipped bikes, I opted to get the SLX shifter instead because the XT was way to stiff a push and I was right, SLX is so soft. Well as a bit of time passed, I came into possession of an 11spd XT and decided to give it a go, because honestly I do love and use that double tap trigger, but after a little while I decided to put the SLX back on to see if I was imagining the big difference, but I wasn't, the SLX stayed on, XT is in the spare parts drawer.