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Chris King is back in business. 6 hole option are now available. But only for 15/20x110mm front and 12x148mm rear hubs.... https://chrisking.com/?fbclid=PAAaaKlMwU7JBEkrLGZepIDCacGs6hjXpKqCM7Vbb…

It happened to me once, my AXS battery empty right after a long DH section, and I need to do a 3.5 miles slight incline climb out. Not a long climb, but it would have been painful since bike was in high gear. Luckily, it was a weekend. So I decided to just sit down and wait... sure enough, 3 mins later, a small pack came up, and I spotted 1 rider had AXS. I kindly asked for favor to borrow his battery to make a few gear shift. Made it back to the car in lower gear 😊.

@sspomer that's not a dual disc setup, the smaller, black 'rotor' is the speed sensor ring. There's an inductance (I think so?) sensor near the caliper sensing the holes and the solids thus calculating the rotational speed. https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0a674e586db066287752e63566f102ad… Motor bikes have the same setup: https://www.revzilla.com/blog_content_image/image/62260/Honda_photo.jpg

The only reason why everything was launched yesterday is Taipei cycle show to draw people to their booths there. it's no different than Sea Otter launches....

Lol no, that embargo date for the SRAM Transmission was set early last fall. If anything TRP should have caught wind and not released on same day. Everyone in industry knew March 21st was end of SRAM's embargo.

I still don't get it how having the tensioner next to the tyre and so down low is a good idea. People constantly mention how low the derailleur cages are on modern drivetrains, but those are always protected by the rear wheel while the BB gets MUCH lower at bottom out. Add a rock in there and you have a slight case of hard touching.

embedding kavenz insta post here for the deets. they need 20 orders to make the frame

Hey we heard you like draggy high pivots, so we added a drag box to your high pivot!

Kavenz High pivot enduro bike with gear box. Pre order starting.

The thing is, the lower end actually has much bigger volume, the margin is for sure lower but the numbers are huge (most of the bikes are not MTBs). Thats why overall Shimano still has much higher sales compared to SRAM who seems to be going more into premium. There could be a billion of bikes on this planet but very little of them run anything above deore/NX, let alone 600$ cogs and wireless transmission... LBS had a chance to become Specialized concept store but passed as they don't make low end bikes which in the end still make up...

Yes, thats been a thing on a few bikes over the last few years. Most likely a cue towards the upcoming Sram E-bike motor system. Now when your battery dies, you cant shift into a lower gear to get your ultra heavy bike up the hill back home!

Sram is concentrating on the ultra high end and shimano is dominant on ultra low end to mid (debatably mid/high end). There seems to be less direct competition between them for certain segments or tiers. That plus the even further reduced compatibility/interchangeability is not so good for us consumers. Sram freely licensed it's udh patent to everyone So trek or whoever can make frames that take a udh and manufacture the udh too, right? Does anyone know what the time limit on those licenses' are or if they are valid for the duration of the patent? Obviously they'd keep it...

AXS directly powered by e-bike battery… ?

There is a dentist who already called his lbs to order one because he can’t wait to stand on his derailleur before the next group ride. with current inflation I really don’t see these as priced any more or less insanely high than original axs or the original top end 12 speed groups. Which have always been released well before the budget tier groups to get maximum returns from impulse buys by people with the money to spend.

Guides/G2s are being discontinued. It was mentioned in one of the overview articles but I can't remember who said it. That leads me to hope that more 'trail' bikes will get Codes instead (since it's such a small weight increase for way more power) but I have a feeling we will see especially low end bikes get the new Level 4 piston brakes instead. Here's hoping they're better than Guides.

Saracen prototype! Was this project at a discount for everyone to adopt it? intense/canyon/specialized

Shimano just released a ton of budget/mass market products under the Cues 'groupset' so not exactly leaving the low end market to others. More like Shimano doubling down on their dominance of the low/mid end of the market.

the possibility the prices are this high to squarely position the new stuff in the utmost highend. That would mean high cashflows even with lower volumes If you can afford 10k for a pushbike , you can probably afford 12k.

I know, but I dont need the ferrari, fine with the civic.

Embargoes! SRAM's been on it for a while, Shimano put the lockdown on like 5 or 6 years ago. They were killing LBS's with the pricing. In many cases, selling for less than an LBS could get at dealer price Lotta the big German shops either own or are under the same ownership as a bike brand, so they can get enormous quantities of parts at OEM pricing. Combine that with the buying power of a mega-retailer and the removal of the VAT and you have even stupider pricing. There are some good things that aren't embargoed on the sites...