I'm looking for Rear derailleur/long cage for 11-50 11-sp cassette. I currently have a Apex 1 long cage - so swapping the cable fin to a Eagle derailleur is out.
Is my only option to get an 3rd party extra long cage and swap it in? I was planning to replace my Apex derailleur already. So I would need to new derailleur and extra long cage.
You can get a Garbaruk Cage or other aftermarket cage for your Apex. You could also get a GX Eagle derailleur and use a Ratio Technologies cable fin on it. I will warn you, if you are going to use a Sunrace 11-50, the cog spacing was made for Shimano. Using it with SRAM the shifting on the large cogs will be sloppy. I’ve done it, so I know first hand. When I did it I bought an Eagle Derailleur and swapped the cage onto my Force derailleur.
ljsmith wrote:You can get a Garbaruk Cage or other aftermarket cage for your Apex. You could also get a GX Eagle derailleur and use a Ratio Technologies cable fin on it. I will warn you, if you are going to use a Sunrace 11-50, the cog spacing was made for Shimano. Using it with SRAM the shifting on the large cogs will be sloppy. I’ve done it, so I know first hand. When I did it I bought an Eagle Derailleur and swapped the cage onto my Force derailleur.
Thanks, I missed Ratio sold the cable fin. I have an old GX Eagle (that was shifting kinda poorly on my MTB, but worth a try. Worst case a get new GX Eagle.
I'm current running the Sunrace 11-42, it's doesn't shift perfect, but workable. Are they SRAM spaced 11-50 -11sp?
The Sunrace cassettes are all spaced for Shimano except the ones made for XD drivers with the weird adapter. SRAM and Shimano use slightly different spacing on the larger cogs. So while they will work with SRAM, the shifting is a little sloppy.
