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Building a 24" downhill bike for my son but the old long cage XT rear derailleur is really big in relation to the wheel size and I can see all sort of potential mechanical issues. Was thinking about getting a cheapish short cage road derailleur to fit instead as crc dont seem to have much in the way of mountain bike ones. Would the combination work?
[i][u]pretty[/u][/i] sure the rear will be ok (and think that's all you're looking at)
are you sure a road mech can cope with the cassette/rings you're using ?
"are you sure a road mech can cope with the cassette/rings you're using ?"
was wondering about this as well its an 11-32 deore and I really could not go for a narrower ratio.