Yeah, as I mentioned elsewhere, it would have been very interesting to see how different bikes in the 00's would have been if all the manufacturing and materials were the same but the groupsets had clutch derailleurs, narrow-wide rings, and wide-range 1x drivetrains. I'm sure a fixed-idler Maelstrom would have been a different story at least to the extent that DH bikes with idlers had been fairly sorted by the time it was released.
That's interesting that the Crown (1x DH) had a fixed metal idler.
July 1, 2021, 9:52 p.m. - Andrew Major
Yeah, as I mentioned elsewhere, it would have been very interesting to see how different bikes in the 00's would have been if all the manufacturing and materials were the same but the groupsets had clutch derailleurs, narrow-wide rings, and wide-range 1x drivetrains. I'm sure a fixed-idler Maelstrom would have been a different story at least to the extent that DH bikes with idlers had been fairly sorted by the time it was released. That's interesting that the Crown (1x DH) had a fixed metal idler.