New Rene Herse Nivex Derailleur

[Mark McM]

Originally Posted by bicycletricycle

Hard to tell in the pics but the RH derailleur seems to have some slant as well.

Looking closer at the photos, I think you're right, the RH derailleur parallogram is slanted (but probably not as much as the Suntour). The Suntour also has an angle adjustment, which can raise and lower the cage to help adjust the chain gap. I would think that the RH derailleur could benefit if the frame had horizontal dropouts, to adjust the cassette position relative to the derailleur.

[pdonk]

Originally Posted by Greyfox

What brakes do you have now and what would you switch to?

Greyfox

If it was me, I'd get a set of Chapmans made for it.

https://www.chapmancycles.com/wp-con...31196268_o.jpg

Watching his videos of things he makes is incredible.

[Tickdoc]

Is this the finished product? It looks prototype-ish. I'm no metalurgist, but the finished aluminum here looks both soft and rough to me. It looks as though it could use some anodizing and polishing.

[bicycletricycle]

Originally Posted by Tickdoc

Is this the finished product? It looks prototype-ish. I'm no metalurgist, but the finished aluminum here looks both soft and rough to me. It looks as though it could use some anodizing and polishing.

it is just the straight off the machine CNC finish, it would be nice if it was polished

[bicycletricycle]

cantilevers now, would consider a switch to compass / mafac raid style brakes.

Originally Posted by Greyfox

What brakes do you have now and what would you switch to?

Greyfox

[bicycletricycle]

Originally Posted by Mark McM

Looking closer at the photos, I think you're right, the RH derailleur parallogram is slanted (but probably not as much as the Suntour). The Suntour also has an angle adjustment, which can raise and lower the cage to help adjust the chain gap. I would think that the RH derailleur could benefit if the frame had horizontal dropouts, to adjust the cassette position relative to the derailleur.

because of tight limit on cassette sizing I would imagine there is a known optimal distance to the derailleur mount. Hopefully the builder follows the directions

[72gmc]

Originally Posted by bicycletricycle

because of tight limit on cassette sizing I would imagine there is a known optimal distance to the derailleur mount. Hopefully the builder follows the directions

I wonder if the tab could house a short vertical slot, not unlike a FD braze-on. A bit of range for different cassettes.

[bicycletricycle]

Originally Posted by 72gmc

I wonder if the tab could house a short vertical slot, not unlike a FD braze-on. A bit of range for different cassettes.

in this design it looks like most/all of the cassette tracing is coming from the parallelogram geometry so being able to move it in that dimension would do much. You could slide it forward and maybe make room for a larger cassette but you would increase the gap in the small cogs. This would probably still work but who knows, it looks like the derailleur already has a pretty large gap to the cog. I assume they did plenty of testing and in the end like this solution best.

The mount looks like it sort of sandwiches the derailleur between two plate that are perpendicular to the stay, you could braze them farther apart from each other and make some spacers to achieve some adjustment.

I would probably just use it as suggested. 11-30 with a 30-44 on the front is plenty for me.

[Waldo62]

never mind

[bicycletricycle]

Originally Posted by Waldo62

That’s awesome! You know what is not awesome — #ReneHerse’s customer service. I ordered an in-stock crank from Rene Herse 17 days ago and my account page says the order is “processing.” The RH website has no way to contact the company to ask for order status, so in desperation I am commenting here in hope that I’ll get some sort of response. And I’ll do this on every post that deals with RH products until I get customer service or the crank arrives.
My apologies, but RH's lack of responsiveness is inexcusable.

I like RH in general but the lack of phone number is awful, lots of companies think this is okay but it just isn't.

[marciero]

... and gone. At least listed as out of stock.

[carlucci1106]

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[charliedid]

I want a "Town Bike" built up with one of these and a 3 speed freewheel. They should really make a black one.

[tomato coupe]

Originally Posted by marciero

... and gone. At least listed as out of stock.

Bad luck. Guess it will have to be EPS, Di2, or AXS again.

[peanutgallery]

Pretty much

The tubeless lawsuit will fix some of that

Originally Posted by carlucci1106

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