>>1150246>tensioning parallelogram and pulled cage springs in opposite directionsHuh. I can see how that would make the lever feel a little more consistent, but frankly, that's never been a complaint of mine.
And it doesn't change the fact climbing to a larger cog is more difficult than shifting to a smaller cog, mechanically speaking. And that's an interesting detail, yeh? Not only is parallelogram tension the only thing helping the chain climb up the cassette, *it has to work against cage tension as well*. Hope you/your mechanic got your chain length right; if it's shorter than ideal you're going to have a lot of trouble downshifting...
>Generally speaking LN is superior in every way. Except being the "odd" one.If Shimano truly believed that, and a reversed shifter was the *only* thing holding it back, it would have been ab-so-lutely TRIVIAL to make a new shifter with the tension/detension lever locations reversed, resulting in more "familiar" upshift/downshift behaviors from the levers. But they didn't. They axed the whole fuckin' thing.
Frankly, I never cared one way or another - I didn't notice the swapped upshift/downshift levers after about 5 minutes on the bike. But I did care about the reliability. You may have not had an issue with sticky downshifts, but many people did. I used to dread muddy days on my old XTR M960 setup - No pounding the flats and then dumping the whole cassette right at the base of a climb...
>>1150251>newer>9-speedlol
Also, 9-speed Shimano derailleurs never officially supported anything larger than an 11-34 cassette (although, extremely late in the 9-speed era, Shimano released a single 12-36 cassette for 29'ers). The 11-36 cassette was 10-speed equipment.
