Sachs MTB crank set

[hydorah]

hmm shiny

Yeah nice!

 

[beagle]

Re: Cool

Did they make a rear mech???

They made quite a few, the New Success ones from the mid 90s were really nice.

 

[dbmtb]

The chains were (still are) the best, but I often found the wavey shifters were next to useless in anything over than dry conditions, which was a huge pity.

Odd that. I was using PG - Extremes in danish MUD conditions and found them excellent.

 

[Drencrom]

The chains were (still are) the best, but I often found the wavey shifters were next to useless in anything over than dry conditions, which was a huge pity.

Odd that. I was using PG - Extremes in danish MUD conditions and found them excellent.

I had a lot of trouble with the grips in clay or sticky mud - they would just spin due to the effort required. A few riders I knew with wavey shifters all did the same thing; we used cable ties wrapped around the shifter with the join exposed to get a grip, but after destroying a set of gloves in about a month I gave up and went back to Rapidfire.

The actual shifting was great when it worked though. Crisp and soild.

 

[drystonepaul]

Here's a few more Sachs parts from 1996 and 1997 before SRAM took over completely:

1996 Quarz

1996 Neos

1996 Centera

1997 Quarz

1997 Neos

1997 Centera

For the record I always found the Sachs Wavey shifters much easier to use than the earlier Gripshift due to the larger diameter grip, lighter action and more positive indexing clicks. The older Gripshift like the SRT 400, 600 and 800 (x-ray) were terrible in the wet and required forearms like a gorilla to shift the front mech.

Things improved considerably for SRAM's Gripshift brand when they took over Sachs and incorporated the Sachs designs into the Gripshift shifters.

The other big leap in terms of performance was the move to the 1:1 ESP cable pull ratio.