Why is the Shimano website so terrible?

[Jeff Barber]

Maybe I just don’t know how to use it but I find the Shimano website really difficult to understand. Of course the cryptic product names don’t help but then the product pages seem to be missing basic details. Does anyone know how to decode the product names?

RD-M786-GS-L

Ok, so RD must stand for rear derailleur but that’s all I can get out of this. This one happens to be Dyna-sys DEORE XT but I don’t know if that’s reflected in any of the rest of the code.

Then when I click on the product page, it doesn’t even mention how many speeds it is (I guess all XT systems are 10 speed so maybe that’s why they don’t mention it).

http://bike.shimano.com/publish/content … ntain.html

[Greg Heil ✓ supporter]

I tried to use their website once, and then gave up and just ran a Google search and got info off of a 3rd party website.

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