If AXS was any indication, ( love your throwback to x-5 btw) the team at SRAM is capable, but ends up, not actually producing anything with valuable trickle down importance to average income -average rider -average use scenario…. But man! I would love to be wrong!! That was also a shameful shower of over hyped barely valuable tested if side loading photos and marketing drivel. I really did expect a much lower price point. Wouldn’t dropping this in the cabled gx model BLOW SHIMANO OUT? Instead it’s just the Grammys of over dressed new new gear hype. I loved the durability of my OG saint, it was rapid rise that killed it. I don’t know any Japanese or I’d type it so shimano could hear. I did see a patent alert that showed shimano and direct mount AND b-tension adjustment. Did SRAM have no choice? They had to ditch cables to get around patents? Is shimano once again holding the entry level direct mount market over srams heads????? Cést la vie. Shifter Cables and hydraulic brakes and dropper post equipped mountain bikes are all fun as hell. So are the bikes without those things.
March 24, 2023, 4:39 a.m. - Maximum Radness
If AXS was any indication, ( love your throwback to x-5 btw) the team at SRAM is capable, but ends up, not actually producing anything with valuable trickle down importance to average income -average rider -average use scenario…. But man! I would love to be wrong!! That was also a shameful shower of over hyped barely valuable tested if side loading photos and marketing drivel. I really did expect a much lower price point. Wouldn’t dropping this in the cabled gx model BLOW SHIMANO OUT? Instead it’s just the Grammys of over dressed new new gear hype. I loved the durability of my OG saint, it was rapid rise that killed it. I don’t know any Japanese or I’d type it so shimano could hear. I did see a patent alert that showed shimano and direct mount AND b-tension adjustment. Did SRAM have no choice? They had to ditch cables to get around patents? Is shimano once again holding the entry level direct mount market over srams heads????? Cést la vie. Shifter Cables and hydraulic brakes and dropper post equipped mountain bikes are all fun as hell. So are the bikes without those things.