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From Dave Rome's review: " The new Red XPLR Full Mount derailleur is a dedicated gravel and related dropbar product, based on a 142 mm axle width, that narrower chainline, and not designed with mountain bike rear suspension in mind. " https://escapecollective.com/sram-red-xplr-axs-e1-gravel-groupset-revie…

Why is there so much backlash against frame manufactures like Santa Cruz and Specialized going electronic drivetrain only but no one is questioning what is driving that decision? With GX level AXS and transmission, and the new OEM level transmission SRAM has all but said we aren't doing mechanical shifting anymore. I have no idea what Shimano's plans are with the new Di2 replacement but my guess is that it's going to cover a wide range of performance levels to compete with SRAM, possibly even cannibalizing all their mechanical shifting options. That leaves you with CUES, which by all accounts...

Electric windows and electric drivetrains aren't really comparable. Electric drivetrains gain you cost, complexity and weight for a hardly present benefit (automatic shifting on ebikes is possible). Electric windows enable you to open or close any of the windows of a car with a single press of a button, giving you the ability to focus on the driving and/or opening any/all windows from the driver's seat. Or opening all the windows walking to the car by holding the unlock button of the fob, ventilating the car before you even open any of the doors. Same goes for electrically adjusted mirrors...

What are you talking about? You can choose between soooooo many brands. The people who tend to choose the big brands (the ones ditching cables on the high end carbon trail bikes) are the kind of people who don’t want cables on their high end trail bikes. You can choose from so many amazing brands that tick all of your boxes. But I don’t think that’s what any of this has been about: this has been an exercise in shitting on the hot new thing, shitting on big bad business, shitting on “oh no this is different and scary.” Big...

You know what's really super awesome? When the SC bikes do finally get released like this, we'll get ANOTHER 5 pages of people rehashing the same points ad nauseum.

electric chainsaws? ok i'll show myself out.

Good, the sooner tear offs are banned all round the better. And when a company gets round to making a remote roll off system loic can have an extra button on his bar

At this point I think Loic's mechanic is just finding new ways to troll us bike nerds.

S Curves. Progress still happens even near the top of the S curve, but it's like watching yourself age as you brush your teeth every morning. Day to day, you're seeing the same face in the mirror. Year to year... probably still pretty much seeing the same face. But jump 4-5 years, you've changed. Compare 2019 to 2024, taking the rise of the e-bike out of the picture, we're riding bikes that are yet longer and lower and slacker, steeper seat tubes, bigger brakes, often with some combination of better electronic shifting, high pivots, chain growth defeating tech, etc, etc...

The most exciting feature delivered with the new EP801 firmware update is the extended assist carryover when the rider stops pedaling. This is a key race advantage… Now we’re talking! Push this a little farther and we can call the one good, strong kickstart a pedal stroke and give me a few thousand seconds of ‘carryover’. That’ll getcha up the local hill :D

That's not much seatpost insertion depth

"devil's..."

Steel bolts work pretty well.

How about starting a “things that work well” thread?