Having ridden Record and Super Record back in the dim and distant days of my youth and Record Titanium on my Colnago, I expected budget (i.e. poor) performance from the used Xenon 9-speed kit that I put on my lockdown project. Couldn't have been more wrong, it was (and still is) quite impressive. Even though it's a short cage mech with judicious tuning of chain length it's quite happy exceeding the advised 26t sprocket maximum. The only thing that irks me a little is that rear mech upshifts (large to small) are one cog at a time rather than the multiple changes I'm used to with the Record Ti.