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Originally Posted by Rocket-Sauce
What a beauty! What rear derailleur is that? Microshift? How does it shift? It is getting harder and harder to find silver components...
Yep, that's a Microshift rear. It works just fine, esp paired with the ratcheting Dia Compe ENE shifters. Somewhat surprisingly this is my first bike with these and I was skeptical, but I told Olivier to build with what he thought best. It turns out I like the pairing just fine. I'm not a retro-grouch, I have several bikes with brifters. These shift smoothly though and as advertised the directional effort feels equalized by the ratchet device. I had to micro adjust after the occasional over-shift, but I think that says more about my internal Campy friction shift mindset than these shifters.
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