If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, then you may remember this post. It’s the one where I killed my SRAM X.0 rear derailleur exactly one week after getting my Jet9. The guys at the shop told me that it wasn’t worth rebuilding, so I just ordered a couple of new X.9 ones as a replacement & emergency backup.I never checked the price of the X.0 rebuild because based on what they’d told me, the rebuild was either impossible or incredibly expensive.

Fast forward to now.

I’m waiting on a new Air9 frame (might be as late as the end of the month before it shows up), and I’ve been buying some key replacement parts to lighten the componentry of the future build. I have been eyeballing a medium cage X.0 derailleur, but then remembered that I had a busted long cage one in the garage. After a few minutes of searching, I found a medium rebuild kit for $76. Not bad!

So today, I fixed it! Now I’ve got a sweet, barely used SRAM X.0 medium cage derailleur that’s saving me a nice chunk of grams from the X.9. It also looks pretty damn cool…

X.9

X.0 (yer doin’ it wrong)

Rebuilt X.0