spartan wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 12:15 am
finally the new team on bikeradar are doing more honest opinions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xcOIWTYsFg
everything in this video i agree 100%. when this groupset came out three years ago alot of ww (me included) criticized sram for a giant step backward with axs release. 10t cassette/smaller chainring/integrated power/brutish design. at the time the sram ww fan boys like tobinhatesyou deligently defended the new groupset.
hoping the new groupset goes back to basics and produce superlight road specific groupsets.
If Shimano made what I wanted, I’d defend them.
The 10t is fine. It’s basically a requirement for 1x builds. It’s necessary for the gravel market. And for my needs I prefer having smallish jumps AND the range the 10t allows for. Shimano would do well to follow suit if they want to be taken seriously in the gravel-space. Campagnolo has 9t cogs. The smaller chainring isn’t a separate issue, it’s an effect of including a 10t. While I once thought SRAM should make 11-xx cassettes to satisfy the requirements of pro-level cyclists, I no longer believe that’s necessary after actually having owned AXS.
Lol power meters. I own several SRAM groups and I don’t own any integrated AXS chainring power meters. I’ll remind you that SRAM/Quarq makes 4x107, 5x110 and even 4x110 model power meter spiders. What does Shimano make? Two generations of crank-based power meters that GPLama says aren’t accurate?
Brutish design? Well that’s like, just your opinion man. I happen to like having modular spiders and cranks and easily accessible/swappable batteries. I like the eTap shifting paradigm. I like the fact that there is a whole AXS ecosystem that has cross-compatibility between MTB, gravel and road. Meanwhile GRX is still 11-speed and Shimano honestly doesn’t know what it’s doing with HG, HG-EV, MicroSpline and eventually MicroSpline Road. The E-Tube app only recently gained the capabilities of the AXS app. AXS had wireless firmware updates before Shimano integrated the separate WU11’s capabilities into the 12-speed hardware. Most of all SRAM RD clutches work better than Shimano ones, and having a clutch on the road RD is actually quite nice.
Oh and what’s the deal with Shimano pretending that only BSA, ITA and PF41 exist? T47 and BB386EVO are here to stay. Maybe they should make bottom brackets in those formats.