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Pinkbike has a development story about the new Sram stuff where it's mentioned the new crank is a one piece crank-and-spindle part. But the accompanying picture is of a forged crank and a separate axle. Do we have a confirmation that it is actually a single piece? That would somewhat explain the price but my god is that a saving pennies (or grams) by spending dollars kinda situation... Also, tin foil hat on... A friend of mine mentioned the possibility the prices are this high to squarely position the new stuff in the utmost highend. That would mean high cashflows...

Have you tried a Dorado? If not, do try it - that’s how you’ll figure it out that you need one in your life! 😁

Bike24 has a lot of stuff in stock. I'll focus on two components though, not the complete groupsets. The XX SL chain is 178 €. The XX chain is 148 €. The XX cassette is 656 €, the X0 cassette is 478 €. This is street pricing. If you want to compare the MSRPs of the previous gen, X01 carbon crankset is 401 € as per Sram, the new aluminium one is 360. The chainss are 180 and 150 € (XX SL and XX), the old X01 chain MSRP is 72 €. Street price is ~55 €. The street price...

From the image you shared you've highlighted two things: The valve located in the head unit is the "Base Valve". The shock shaft displaces fluid when it enters the shock body which is forced through this valve generating compression damping. The valve also features a replenishment circuit that allows the displaced fluid to freely move back into the shock body on the rebound stroke. The replenish is generally designed to not produce any rebound restriction or damping. Base Valves are generally designed to manage more of the low and mid-velocity compression damping characteristics with a fine resolution. The second item...

These are not, The TRP stuff has its own specific cable pull so it won't be compatible with anything but itself.

They’ll be giving up an awful lot of sales if they don’t do cable. The Covid boombubble is over, they’ll do it. Probably in exactly one year.

That's how I interpreted it too. Shifting is two phases (I know you know this already), the change in derailleur position followed by the chain moving to a new cog. The timing of the moment the chain moves from one cog to another is dictated more by the new cassette design, but when the derailleur initially moves is still controlled by the shift button/lever. Electronic or mechanical it shouldnt make any difference.

took me a long time to sort out controller/shifter as same thing too lol

from article "Gear ratios are smoother too with the 52t largest cog now stepping down to 44t and 38t gears. " all the rest are the same as old cassette.

thanks for sharing your experience, I plan on going for a runt myself. I worked at Fox suspension for a few years and helped DSD a few times, acquire some Fox parts. I should have pulled the trigger back then, but it looks like BTI sells them so I plan on snagging one when back in stock. What made me decide to get a runt, was actually trying a Helm. You can bleed the air off and effectively make it a dual rate spring, which greatly improved the feel. So adding that functionality to a 36 should be sweet

Everyone here should read this if you have not yet, pretty sure it's available in e-form. It will answer many of the questions posed here, and cut through the confusion. You can then ask the important questions like why is RockShox so enamored with digressive compression and rebound stacks? In regards to mid valves on fork dampers, many of them can have a rather large compression effect that can produce spiking at higher velocities and add to a harsh feeling. To test this on yours; close the (low speed) rebound adjuster all the way, which closes the bleed around the...

MTB's have had it for years! The KYB SSS is just a marketing term for Speed Sensitive System. It's not really an actual thing, but rather Yamaha adopting an aggressive damper tune from their racing program and offering it to the masses as the standard production spec. Generally speaking, the media guys who test bikes are amateur racers so production MX suspension was always a bit on the soft side. Yamaha goes aggressive with the production-spec and voila! Test riders around the globe rejoice and report that it's the best suspension system out there!

Rear shocks do not have Mid-Valves. Let's take a 170mm travel trail bike: Front wheel travel is 170mm, fork travel is 170mm. Front Fork Wheel Velocity Range is 0-9m/sec, fork velocity is 0-9m/sec Rear wheel travel is 170mm, shock travel is 65mm. Rear wheel velocity is 0-7m/sec, shock velocity is 0-2.7m/sec This is due to the fact that rear shocks are driven by a linkage or pivot system so the motion is not directly 1:1 like a front fork. Because forks are dealing with a larger travel and velocity range, mid-valves were introduced as another tuning element to reduce compromise...

HBO and Position Sensitive damping have been around since the early 2000's. The original FOX 36 released in 2005 had HBO... we've had SPV, Boost Valve, Curnutt, etc which have all been position-sensitive systems. HBO is still useful, but position sensitive less so now that most bikes have a pretty good rising rate linkage rate. -Darren

I believe that mid valves are common in rear shock? Especially RockShocks with piggiback all use mid valve, they have 2 compression stack, one on the piston and a base valve near piggyback. I think that Bomber CR does that as well. Or maybe this is just a naming thing?

I like that hydraulic bottom out is becoming more popular on "mainstream" suspension. The industry seems to be slowly stealing ideas from trophy trucks and other offroad motorsports. Will we see position sensitive damping and mid speed damping control in the next few years?

Just for some clarity: Base Valve(s): These are the fixed valves that displaced fluid moves through. Mid Valve: This is when you are creating compression damping on the backside of the rebound damper piston. This is often just a check valve as creating force on the back side of a rebound piston can get tricky due to how easy it can cavitate. Mid valves are not found in rear shocks. Damper Piston: Is what is attached to the shaft in a rear shock and is in motion. Rear shocks are circulatory therefore you don't have fluid flowing in multiple directions...

Isn't the puropse of the breakaway to mimick a traditional derailleur and protect the servo motor gears from being damaged from an impact? A cable operated derailleur (except Shimano's rapid-rise experiment) can already move inboard quite far since it doesn't tension the cable in that direction. You can shift into lager cogs pushing your thumb on the cage without using the shifter if you want to. Without pedaling it'll bind mechanically after about 5mm, but so will an AXS system. It's only going to be a matter of time until this works its way onto all levels of SRAM drivetrains...

?? AXS shifts when you push the button, there's no way for the system to know where the cassette is in its roatation. Previous geration Eagle AXS and Eagle cable systems all use the same cassette.