MTB Drivetrain - What speed is your current drivetrain and what will you buy next?

[Spinnekop]

Maybe update your "current"  with 1 x 12 as a lot of people have them now?

[Mojoman]

3 x 9 currently...probably have to go to 2 x 10 due to availability of parts....will see on the next bike I get to buy in another couple of years...

I don't really have any problems with a 3 x 9....

[shaper]

2 x 10, will prob stay 2 x 10 else might consider 1 x 11

[Breezer]

I will wait for the 3x12 super eagle. Will be released in 2020 when standard eagle sales are down. ????

[Dexter-morgan]

Call me old fashioned or just tight fisted, I will stick to my current 2 x 10 set-up until it packs up or they steal the bike, I am just enjoying my Scott Genius waaay! too much to change anything.

[s14phoenix]

I tried 1x10 - too narrow, 2x10 good, 1x10(extended) too narrow, 1x11 Jumps in ratios too wide, 1x12 range jumps too wide although the top and bottom end is ok-ish.

 

I still think 2x11 is the best and least amount of gears to cover all needed. The rest just does not work well enough.

 

These huge new cassettes also weigh too much and the weight balance of the bikes seem off.

 

2x11 with 42/30 front and 11-40 rear.

 

2c. IMO.

[T-Bob]

No option for 1x 13 for the future? SRAM Vulture is coming!

[s14phoenix]

No option for 1x 13 for the future? SRAM Vulture is coming!

 

SRAM are such posers with their revolutionary 12 speed....

 

 

... Shimano 14 speed XT Samurai  

 

 

 

 

[Letum911]

Sitting on 1 x 1 here on my HT.

 

My DS is currently on a 3 x 10, however I am considering going 1x11 in the future. 1x12 is just too expensive at this stage.

[Grease_Monkey]

Current bikes all 1x11. I'm fat though so I use 30t or 32t chainrings to get the granny gear I want which leaves me wanting a bit more on the top end - especially on the XC bike. So I will be going 1x12 on the next bike (won't replace the current 1x11 set ups though - don't need it that badly). Probably a 34t with a 10-50t cassette. Can't imagine I'll ever need more range than that...

[Fox3]

1X11 when this thread was created.

1X12 now...think it's making me lazy

[T-Bob]

Current bikes all 1x11. I'm fat though so I use 30t or 32t chainrings to get the granny gear I want which leaves me wanting a bit more on the top end - especially on the XC bike. So I will be going 1x12 on the next bike (won't replace the current 1x11 set ups though - don't need it that badly). Probably a 34t with a 10-50t cassette. Can't imagine I'll ever need more range than that...

 

My bike is only designed for 30T & 32T (max) so that is why I have tiny legs and spin really slowly up hills. 

[Andrew_Smith]

Current bikes all 1x11. I'm fat though so I use 30t or 32t chainrings to get the granny gear I want which leaves me wanting a bit more on the top end - especially on the XC bike. So I will be going 1x12 on the next bike (won't replace the current 1x11 set ups though - don't need it that badly). Probably a 34t with a 10-50t cassette. Can't imagine I'll ever need more range than that...

 

If not fat by any means haha and I use a 30T and love it on the trails! Never ever said to myself I need more top-end speed and I love climbing.

 

That being said when I ride road with my bike I switch the 30T out with a 34T. 

[Grease_Monkey]

My bike is only designed for 30T & 32T (max) so that is why I have tiny legs and spin really slowly up hills. 

 

Haha I also spin really (REALLY) slowly up hills with my 30t - it's the pedalling when the trail points down that becomes an issue - I have no leg speed, so at speed the cranks spin too fast for my legs to keep up!

[Grease_Monkey]

If not fat by any means haha and I use a 30T and love it on the trails! Never ever said to myself I need more top-end speed and I love climbing.

 

That being said when I ride road with my bike I switch the 30T out with a 34T. 

 

It's mostly on the XC bike that I feel I need more top end - and that's on long flat sections of gravel/district road. On the trail bike with a 30t it does happen, but not often, that I feel I need more top end.

 

EDIT: XC bike has a 32t chainring with a 11-42t cassette, so still has less top end than trail bike with a 30t chainring and 10-42t cassette. Amazing what 1t can do!