I'm on the sunrace bandwagon, had xt 11 speed and hated the last jump but because only cockroaches are harder to kill than an xt cassette I had to wait to try the 11-50 sunrace cassette that my mates were riding on the steep grinds to the top of golfie in Scotland and curse their 50 tooth. Having got shimano everything else and the sunrace cassette I can gladly avoid 12 speed for now as the shifting is great and I can avoid the expense of new freehubs as well as the rest of the drivetrain. I'm aware that my 40+ age puts me in the automatic no load shifting and anti sram demographic though so given the shifting isn't noticeably worse than the stock xt cassette and I couldn't bring myself to go eagle even if I had xt 12 speed I probably still wouldn't be able to bring myself to shift standing up
March 16, 2020, 2:33 p.m. - danielshiels
I'm on the sunrace bandwagon, had xt 11 speed and hated the last jump but because only cockroaches are harder to kill than an xt cassette I had to wait to try the 11-50 sunrace cassette that my mates were riding on the steep grinds to the top of golfie in Scotland and curse their 50 tooth. Having got shimano everything else and the sunrace cassette I can gladly avoid 12 speed for now as the shifting is great and I can avoid the expense of new freehubs as well as the rest of the drivetrain. I'm aware that my 40+ age puts me in the automatic no load shifting and anti sram demographic though so given the shifting isn't noticeably worse than the stock xt cassette and I couldn't bring myself to go eagle even if I had xt 12 speed I probably still wouldn't be able to bring myself to shift standing up