Added Sensah Brifters
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Lots of good photos!!!!So I just mounted the Sensah cyclocross 1 by 11 on my Emeljay'd T50. I am trying out the inverted bullhorn bar method for now. Getting used to double-tap shifting.
Rampa
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Spent some time getting dialed in, but now they are quite nice. Not sure I like double-tap, but it does work well and looks very clean.
Sensah is a company made up of former SRAM engineers. So the quality is good, and they are also inexpensive. This particular set was the brifters and derailleur only, and met my needs perfectly. I was looking for one-by-eleven road brifters with a long cage derailleur for a wide cassette, for cheap, in case I didn't like it. Jury is still out on the inverted bullhorns.
The cable routing on the derailleur is especially nice. It routes the end of the cable out through a hole in the front plate, so it is not poking down into the cage and spokes, like my Shimano derailleur does.
Sensah is a company made up of former SRAM engineers. So the quality is good, and they are also inexpensive. This particular set was the brifters and derailleur only, and met my needs perfectly. I was looking for one-by-eleven road brifters with a long cage derailleur for a wide cassette, for cheap, in case I didn't like it. Jury is still out on the inverted bullhorns.
The cable routing on the derailleur is especially nice. It routes the end of the cable out through a hole in the front plate, so it is not poking down into the cage and spokes, like my Shimano derailleur does.
ak-tux
Zen MBB Master
Is that a Deckas Narrowwide chainring on 104BCD? What size is it? 42? 44? 46? 48? What is the largest sprocket on the cassette?
Very nice setup!
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velocio
Austrian roadside steckerlfisch (fish on a stick)
I used a Deckas NW ring on a 1x9 build for a 9 year old pal of mine last year. It's a nicely made ring and quite a bargain for what it is (bought direct from China on eBay).
Cyclists seem to have gotten much, much stronger in the last 10-20 years. I haven't, but I read about other folks chasing high gears that were very atypical a decade or two ago. A 44/10 ring/cog combo is equivalent to a 53/12, which is a decently high gear and not so long ago was the highest gear you'd see under the strongest racers on earth. Or, not so terribly long before that the same gear would have been implemented as a 57/13 combo, which was utterly unheard of. I wish I could spin a 57/13 other than down a steep hill!
-Jack
Cyclists seem to have gotten much, much stronger in the last 10-20 years. I haven't, but I read about other folks chasing high gears that were very atypical a decade or two ago. A 44/10 ring/cog combo is equivalent to a 53/12, which is a decently high gear and not so long ago was the highest gear you'd see under the strongest racers on earth. Or, not so terribly long before that the same gear would have been implemented as a 57/13 combo, which was utterly unheard of. I wish I could spin a 57/13 other than down a steep hill!
-Jack
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Rampa
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Because I did not want to replace the entire cable-housing run to accommodate the longer housing needed for my brifters, I did the housing in two parts. A short run along the bullhorns, and a junction into the the existing housing.
V-brake noodles are available in multi-packs for cheap, so I bought a pack of 6 (only needed 3) and cannibalized three to give the other three cable ferrules on both ends. Resulted in a nice 90 degree cable bend at the stem.
V-brake noodles are available in multi-packs for cheap, so I bought a pack of 6 (only needed 3) and cannibalized three to give the other three cable ferrules on both ends. Resulted in a nice 90 degree cable bend at the stem.
