#Perfectly clear workbench review install
You just install and connect the cable as tightly as possible, and a clever system inside the lever itself allows you to then adjust out the slack. My personal bike happens to already have an in-line barrel adjuster in the dropper cable, but the Sword remote doesn’t actually require one. And I really liked the tension adjustment in the dropper remote. The brake housing stops are not designed to accommodate housing ferrules, but brake housing works just fine without a ferrule if it’s got a snug fit, which the Sword lever has. I also like that the housing stops on both dropper remote and shifter are sized for housing ferrules, not bare 4mm SIS housing. And it does an admirable job of keeping the lines smooth, no matter where the cable is coming from. I’m always hoping to see road and gravel derailleurs simply embrace chainstay cable routing by using a front-facing cable entry, but I admit that microSHIFT’s vertical-entry route accommodates old-school seatstay routing. Next to the B-screw is the clever barrel adjuster with a semispherical housing stop to better align for chainstay cable routing. This oft-forgotten adjustment has gotten a lot more crucial thanks to wide-range cassettes. To aid in setup, microSHIFT includes a little plastic guide to help in properly setting up the B-screw.
#Perfectly clear workbench review free
If you don’t, feel free to skip the following paragraph. Installation was pretty straightforward, but there are interesting things to talk about … if you find extremely mundane shop talk interesting. I hung the parts on my Otso Fenrir, a sort of monster gravel machine with off-road touring capabilities. I ran my SRAM GX crank and 34-tooth ring instead of the Sword crank because the smallest stock ring is 40t, but we’ll talk about that later. I tested the 1x configuration with its shifters wired to an 11-48 cassette, the brakes wired to a set of Paul Klampers and the dropper remote wired to a RockShox Reverb via a Bike Yoke DeHy kit. Now, we’re a month into the relationship, and I have thoughts. I covered most of the vital stats on Sword the day the components dropped, but I hadn’t yet gotten a chance to actually ride it.
That’s when, like the sexy stranger disrupting a rom-com protagonist’s unhappy European vacation, microSHIFT Sword bumped into Travis with a very timely meet-cute. Also, the hydraulic brakes had too much dead stroke for Travis’ discerning index fingers. It’s a sad side-effect of the Ratio conversion’s decreased cable pull per-shift. He had been noticing that his Ratio-12-speed-converted SRAM Force shift quality would degrade quickly, as the cable housing wore and friction increased. MicroSHIFT’s new Sword group came into Travis Engel’s life at the perfect moment.
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