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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: LTwoo rim brake / mechanical 2024 refresh
« on: November 22, 2024, 02:39:56 PM »
Quote from: TribesMan on November 22, 2024, 02:49:15 AM
Maybe there is just a mechanical blockage inside the new style brake levers. Similar to what campy did in Ekar.
I almost doubt they could mount old mechanism inside the new style levers, because the position of the downshift lever is completely different in new vs old.

It is possible, but I doubt it. I looked at the internals of the R9 Hydro vs R9 Mechanical and the shifting mechanism/gears are completely different. The R9 Hydro has something more akin to Campy Ultrashift mechanism while the R9 Mechanical has something more akin to Campy Powershift internals (think 2015 Veloce). The Campy Powershift levers only did 3 up and 1 down.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: LTwoo rim brake / mechanical 2024 refresh
« on: November 21, 2024, 04:59:26 PM »
Quote from: TribesMan on November 21, 2024, 04:16:36 AM
But if it is the same style thumb shifter as Hydro R9/RX why could you not shift multiple gears at once as Alex Jones mentioned?
My guess is they kept the internals of the shifter and just changed the lever design. Probably costed too much to engineer the shifting mechanism into the mechanical mold or maybe it has some patent reason. I was so excited to see them at first thinking I could finally get Campy slam shifting with Shimano hardware on rim brakes (always wanted it ever since I used a Campy shifter). Imagine my surprise when I received them, and they would only do 1 shift into the harder gear

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: LTwoo rim brake / mechanical 2024 refresh
« on: November 17, 2024, 11:00:43 AM »
Kind of disappointed by this refresh, seem to be mostly a cosmetic refresh and the internal were not change. You cannot do the gear dumping into harder gears like the hydro version and Campy. Was so excited to have a rim brake Chinese Campag clone, but this is not it  :-\

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