Then I'll finally be able to joke that Satan is my motor
This is new-school e13 – it is not going to be remotely competitively priced. My guess is $200+.
Well the sram x01 retails for over $300. So...
And the XT will be something like $100?
I agree with you on the prices, I always ran those XT cassettes too. But when you are riding big mountain rides, there is a big difference between a 10-42 cassette and an 11-36, 30t ring or not. The same people I hear saying, I can ride anything with a 36 are the same people I see walking up Pisgah climbs. : ) The real question is why can't someone make an affordable 10-42 cassette.$200 for a cassette might seem cheap because the prices of a lot of MTB gear has risen 2x or more in the last several years. If an 11-36 XT 10spd runs $60, it's hard to understand why you would pay $300 for 11spd. Go do some squats or get a 30t front ring. Lack of 11spd is not why you're slow
$144 msrp for the GX cassette isn't too far away from the XT one...
Haven't ridden pisgah, but yeah - I hear you - 30x36 isn't going to climb everything.
not anything longer than 20ft, that's for sure. I had a 30x32 on the krampus and I could climb most anything around here, which does mean steep...but also short. The benefits to low gearing really come out when you're going all day, and up for a large part of it.
I cannot wait for this point to be spun by the marketing machines: optimize your gears AND suspension kinematics with our new cassette!
DW did it right here half a decade algo, so....
There's aluminum, and then there's e13 cheese. I wouldn't have believed it until I owned one.
Once the 3rd generation is in rotation I will be interested; BMX tore up alot of freehubs and freewheels getting to their 1-piece drivers in use today. ...which are more burly, and do not have a cluster to support.
shimano have the Caprio or whatever it's called. Not sure if they invented it. Maybe they'll bust that out of their arsenal next year.
more active suspension in every gear. Better ground clearance. Gearing range of a lemming.
I was referring to the freehub body and cassette that goes to nine tooth. You can have the rest.Yay, Capreo. How is it not the winningest official groupset of RM?
That would go great with CX rims.
So, basically Shimano have the technology and know-how to seriously threaten (not to say completely destroy because cheaper) the whole SRAM 11spd range AND the 7spd DH X01 (9-26 SAINT anyone?!)....yet, we are looking at some "a-little-too-late-still-not-quite-there-OEM-maybe" 11spd XT...go figure.
