Deore XT or 105 Mech for road bike?

thel33ter

I have recently got a road bike after being a mountain biker. I use my bike to commute and want a new mech cause I can't get the Chorus one to index well. I was thinking XT cause the one on my MTB works very well but a 105 mech is a road one so might be better. Both are short cage btw.

redddraggon

Well it's nout to do with the mech - Chorus mechs index aswell as shimano

If you have a campag groupset you need a campag mech anyway

thel33ter

I've got a shimano groupset so need shimano or sram.

redddraggon

thel33ter wrote:

I've got shimano 105 shifters so need shimano or sram.

You'll need a shimano mech, SRAM and Campag won't index too well as you've found out.

maddog 2

you need a Shimano road mech, not a MTB one (different pull)

you can get a Campag FD to work with Shimano shifters but you need to alter the cable routing, to reduce the leverage and get the mech to move further for each cable shift.

redddraggon

maddog 2 wrote:

you need a Shimano road mech, not a MTB one (different pull)

Shimano MTB and Road rear deraillers pull the same amount of cable.

will3

You have it all wrong. What he needs is Campag shifters

maddog 2

redddraggon wrote:

Shimano MTB and Road rear deraillers pull the same amount of cable.

for some reason I thought he meant front mechs...... :shock:

yes, I concur, rears can be either.

hopper1

You'll need a mech of the same manufacture as your shifters... To keep things simple! :roll:

eh

Helps if you say what shifters, cassette and number of sprockets you are using :roll:

And even worse don't shimano still do Rapid rise mechs as well in their mtb range?

thel33ter

I'm using 105 shifters, dunno what make the cassette is but its an 11-26 8 speed.