On Jan 21, 11:19*pm, wrote:

The 7-8 shift issue is not a big deal. *And if your serial number =
33000,
you get gear 11 rather than 14 in the middle of a 7-8 shift.

Yes, it is off road goddammit.

Derailleur bike riders put up with worse. It's less of a pain
than shifting to a smaller front chainring under pressure.

As Chalo once so aptly put it:

Front derailleurs are pretty brutal devices even in this day and age,

Amen. They are just about as delicate and sophisticated as using
salad tongs to jerk your chain between different rings.

Tom Ace