Is Sram going mad

[Paddaman]

easy...they will be in the cross fit t-shirt, at the vegan restaurant sipping on a decaf skinny latte with their S-Werx next to them telling you all the above?

They will also be wearing their Pilots jacket/raybans and have a MBA textbook on the table

[Simon123]

hahahaha, literally came out of a meeting now where the client was joking that everyone and their cat is doing some "insert random internet university" MBA these days.  LOL

 

I have a SS (it's a decoration in my garage) and do crossfit.   F**K!

[FrikkieMeyer87]

Back to the topic at hand, one big difference between the SRAM Eagle XX1 and Eagle GX groupsets is that gears 1 thru 11 of the 12-speed XX1 cassette is milled out of a single billet with only the 50T being aluminium, whereas the GX versions consists of individual stamped gears linked together with linkage pins. That means that in order to manufacture the XX1 cassette, they take a solid block of Chromium-Molybdenum (or "Chromoly" as the industry refers to it) and mill the cassette out of it. The result is a seamless single piece cassette, but on the flipside more than half of the material that it started out as is wasted and has to be melted down and forged again as part of a recycling process, whereas the GX gears are stamped out of large metal sheets and are arranged for minimum wastage, i.e. the ratio between finished products and waste material is much higher for the GX range than the XX1 range, thus the price of the XX1. Still, I feel that the relatively small performance difference between the two does not warrant the massive price difference.

 

If I made coffee by throwing coffee beans in my eyes percolating them with my own tears, then served it in cups women by silk worms and hand painted by a monk on the highest habitable peak of Everest and then charging $100 a drop, it would not suddenly become the new standard of perfection. People would still just go buy a mega cap at Wimpy and tell me to FRO.

[usxorf]

If I made coffee by throwing coffee beans in my eyes percolating them with my own tears, then served it in cups women by silk worms and hand painted by a monk on the highest habitable peak of Everest and then charging $100 a drop, it would not suddenly become the new standard of perfection. People would still just go buy a mega cap at Wimpy and tell me to FRO.

I'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between a R500 sunrace and a R10,000 golden xx eagle cassette, but c'mon, anyone can tell the difference between a decent cappy and a wimpy.

[Hairy]

Back to the topic at hand, one big difference between the SRAM Eagle XX1 and Eagle GX groupsets is that gears 1 thru 11 of the 12-speed XX1 cassette is milled out of a single billet with only the 50T being aluminium, whereas the GX versions consists of individual stamped gears linked together with linkage pins. That means that in order to manufacture the XX1 cassette, they take a solid block of Chromium-Molybdenum (or "Chromoly" as the industry refers to it) and mill the cassette out of it. The result is a seamless single piece cassette, but on the flipside more than half of the material that it started out as is wasted and has to be melted down and forged again as part of a recycling process, whereas the GX gears are stamped out of large metal sheets and are arranged for minimum wastage, i.e. the ratio between finished products and waste material is much higher for the GX range than the XX1 range, thus the price of the XX1. Still, I feel that the relatively small performance difference between the two does not warrant the massive price difference.

 

If I made coffee by throwing coffee beans in my eyes percolating them with my own tears, then served it in cups women by silk worms and hand painted by a monk on the highest habitable peak of Everest and then charging $100 a drop, it would not suddenly become the new standard of perfection. People would still just go buy a mega cap at Wimpy and tell me to FRO.

I was hanging off every word, then you dropped this line and I switched off

['Dale]

From the might SRAM brand to linkage with Wimp's coffee....

 

Oh dear

[Hairy]

From the might SRAM brand to linkage with Wimp's coffee....

 

Oh dear

easy ............ both are bad at the moment

[FrikkieMeyer87]

I was hanging off every word, then you dropped this line and I switched off

 

From the might SRAM brand to linkage with Wimp's coffee....

 

Oh dear

 

I'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between a R500 sunrace and a R10,000 golden xx eagle cassette, but c'mon, anyone can tell the difference between a decent cappy and a wimpy.

 

Haha hey, it's the only brand I could think of in that moment that every person nationwide would know and understand. Personally I like the coffee served by RAW here in the CBD, but not sure if that's even a thing up in Gangsters Paradise or down in New Delhi so thought I'd stick to the known

[Patchelicious]

I was hanging off every word, then you dropped this line and I switched off

Thank goodness it was right at the end, just to loop you in, you only missed a further 5 words, they didn't make much sense anyway.

[Mudsimus]

Marginal gains. Its what made Froome a multiple grand tour winner after all..????

[dev null]

This thread's OP consulted the wrong calendar.

[Suidwes Boytjie]

Back to the topic at hand, one big difference between the SRAM Eagle XX1 and Eagle GX groupsets is that gears 1 thru 11 of the 12-speed XX1 cassette is milled out of a single billet with only the 50T being aluminium, whereas the GX versions consists of individual stamped gears linked together with linkage pins. That means that in order to manufacture the XX1 cassette, they take a solid block of Chromium-Molybdenum (or "Chromoly" as the industry refers to it) and mill the cassette out of it. The result is a seamless single piece cassette, but on the flipside more than half of the material that it started out as is wasted and has to be melted down and forged again as part of a recycling process, whereas the GX gears are stamped out of large metal sheets and are arranged for minimum wastage, i.e. the ratio between finished products and waste material is much higher for the GX range than the XX1 range, thus the price of the XX1. Still, I feel that the relatively small performance difference between the two does not warrant the massive price difference.

 

If I made coffee by throwing coffee beans in my eyes percolating them with my own tears, then served it in cups women by silk worms and hand painted by a monk on the highest habitable peak of Everest and then charging $100 a drop, it would not suddenly become the new standard of perfection. People would still just go buy a mega cap at Wimpy and tell me to FRO. (PEOPLE WOULD STILL JUST GO AND BUY A CUP AT OUMEUL, BOOTLEGGER, SHIFT ESPRESSO) 

There, fixed that for you... 

[Catatonic_Joe]

https://www.puremotionsports.co.za/product/sram-xx1-eagle-upgrade-kit-1x12-excl-ring/

 

R10 000, out of stock though

 

Edit: I dont work for Pure Motion Sports, just subscribed to the emails.

[Danger Dassie]

I'd spend 60k on an MTB before dropping 30k on a vokn couch! 

[GLuvsMtb]

Already did...

If thats the case, mtb'ers will be working on their skills instead of their fitness. It blows my mind how people spend R150K on equipment and don't bother to learn how to use it properly.

 

 

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[CAAD4]

If thats the case, mtb'ers will be working on their skills instead of their fitness. It blows my mind how people spend R150K on equipment and don't bother to learn how to use it properly.

 

 

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