Tim
aka sptimmy43
I am having an iissue with my rear derailleur. The bike is 1x11 with an SLX derailleur, XT shifter and a e*13 9-46t cassette. The chain is nearly brand new as I just replaced it. I noticed that recently my shift quality was deteriorating a bit and certain gears were a bit noisy (middle of the cassette) and going from 11th to 10th (small/hard gears) and vice versa is not reliable. Sometimes the bike shifts, sometimes it doesn't. It goes up and down the rest of the cassette smooth as silk. I am pretty meticulous with keeping a clean bike and a thorough cleaning and lube job didn't take care of the issue. At first I thought the hanger was bent as the mis-shifts only happen on 2 gears. I replaced it with a spare I had as I don't have a derailleur hanger alignment tool. The new hanger made no improvement. So I replaced the inner and outer shift cable (curse the bastard who invented inner cable routing, by the way). The new cable did not fix anything, either. I am thinking the derailleur itself must be damaged. It visually looks fine and I assume the original hanger was ok but something isn't right.
Anyway, I'd appreciate any insight.
Anyway, I'd appreciate any insight.