New shifters?

lawman76

Hey folks looking for a bit of advice,
I'm currently upgrading my front and rear mechs to shimano xt m771 but I have shimano acera shifters and was wondering if these would still work ok?

supersonic

What speed acera shifters do you have? What mechs did you have before?

BigAl

Afaik, Acera is 8 spd & the XT mechs you mention are 9 spd.

So they're not an ideal match. Not sure if it'll work or not (somebody else will be along and let you know)

Forgive me, but on a bike equipped with Acera gears - there's going to be better ways of upgrading it. Why do you want to change the mechs?

supersonic

Newest Acera are 9 speed ;-).

BigAl

supersonic wrote:

Newest Acera are 9 speed ;-).

I stand corrected

But my other comments still stand.

On a bike equipped with Acera, XT mechs are overkill as a first upgrade. XT front and rear would cost, say, £80? Which could buy a 2nd hand Recon fork? Likely to be better than the stock fork.

If mech needs replacing because it's broken, Deore would be a better vfm upgrade?

Performance gains of mechs moving up the Shimano range are quite marginal, particularly for the front.

benpinnick

^ This. Infact keep the front mech (maybe even the rear) and change the shifters is a better value option. Acera shifters suck badly (they are functionally fine but feel awful) - try Deore or above to get Dual release and nicer shifting.

The Rookie

BigAl wrote:

Afaik, Acera is 8 spd & the XT mechs you mention are 9 spd.

So they're not an ideal match. Not sure if it'll work or not (somebody else will be along and let you know)

'match' and work perfectly.......but as mentioned, the shifter upgrade should come first, then rear mech and only then the front (but lots of other parts of the bike to do first), also the Fork is usually the single best upgrade.

hainman

Merlin cycles have some good deals on drive train stuff,might get a bargain.