SRAM!

during the weekend got myself a little excited about some stuff i had bought over the last couple of months. upgrades for my wife t-blaze bike! woohoo! i luv my wife very much and i don't really want her to get frustrated using the standard SiS crap components. u know those unreliable shifting and making hell lots of sounds during shifting the gears.

anyway the list i bought over the past months was:
1) mavic x221 wheelset with deore hub
2) sram 9.0 esp rear derailleur
3) sram x.7 trigger shifter
4) deore xt front derailleur
5) deore 9 speed cassette
6) shimano hg-93 chain

didn't really put all the stuff into the t-blaze bike..hahaha..hey, my merida need some few stuff as well. :D

sram 9.0 esp rd with deore cassette n hg-93 chain

when you talk about sram derailleur's, ppl will say sram has the most accurate shifting then others like shimano for example. i found that is true enough, i hav a xt rd with xt trigger shifter on my merida and comparing with the t-blaze shifting i'll say the t-blaze scores better. the sram 9.0 esp already been 4 - 5 years old compare to my xt 2 years back. hmmm....

a closer look on the sram 9.0 esp (2002 - 03)

sram x.7 trigger shifter (2006)

the sram shifter pods are somewhat odd design then the shimano xt shifter. usually you'll get the push n pull trigger on your xt but sram did it other. push to shift up and push to shift down. most probably if i wreck my xt rear derailleur i might go for sram. i'll might get the x.7 shifter pods, they looks more cooler then the xt ones and the x.7 rear derailleur as my future upgrades.

sram x.7 rd (2006)