Monday, June 1, 2009

New Shimano shiz.

It is hot enough now here in AZ that all black jerseys are at the back of the closet and everything that does not incur the suns wrath is brought forward. Here Travis is in his new SMC kit Saturday morning at the top of South Mountain, this still may be a little too much black for me at this point. I am contemplating the entire white skin suit thing just to keep the heat under control.
Here is a super secret spy pick of shimano's new black box rear derailleur for the road. You will note that is made from parts of an old XT mountain derailleur and something else. Travis has been testing it for a few weeks now and it seems to be working out alright. Here is my problem, why is it when two brothers come from the same line of white trash Travis gets the redneck fix it up abilities and I get the hoard everything I can part? It's just not fair.

1 comments:

Thunderlump said...

That would be a 2001 XT derailur body ground down to meet road spec, and a 1995 RSX shortcage, with Sram XO Pullys.

Its the new hotness!

Whiskey 50 video by Travis.