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There’s a flood of Direct Mount derailleur hangers at the Tour de France — but why?

Shimano began drastically changing the designs of its mountain bike rear derailleurs in 2007, moving the entire mechanism toward the rear of the bike in an effort to improve shifting performance and chain wrap on wider-range cassettes. That design quickly filtered out to Shimano’s entire mountain bike range, and eventually even out to the road …

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