SRAM Launches Eagle Mechanical Mountain Bike Transmissions with Full Mount Interface

[thebob]

Just had a look online now at a GX 90 kit. Converted price is 12k for a chainring, chain, cassette, shifter and derailleur. So will likely be more like 15k once tax and local margin is applied. Shimano Linkglide can be had for around half of that.

[Danger Dassie]

4 hours ago, thebob said:

Just had a look online now at a GX 90 kit. Converted price is 12k for a chainring, chain, cassette, shifter and derailleur. So will likely be more like 15k once tax and local margin is applied. Shimano Linkglide can be had for around half of that.

Deore, bomb proof and incredible. Even some of the Cues stuff. 
Still, I do like the direction SRAM have gone here and expect that pricing lower down the tier should level out. 

[MORNE]

9 hours ago, LazyTrailRider said:

Both my previous and my current bike have UDH. I've been eyeing GX Transmission, but I can't get over the cost, so this might just be for me...

Yea, ive also had two bikes with UDH now and ive never had transmission. And i only buy bikes with UDH purely because you can walk into a cycle lab and get a ‘hanger’. No more proprietary frame specific hangers please.

Probably not a thing yet in road biking😅.

[thebob]

More and more road bikes are coming out with UDH. The Trojan Hanger is doing its work 

[LazyTrailRider]

1 hour ago, MORNE said:

you can walk into a cycle lab and get a ‘hanger’. No more proprietary frame specific hangers please.

I’ve never actually considered this, but good point!

Then again, in 35 years of riding across dozens upon dozens of bikes, I’ve only once bent a hanger (probably 20 years ago), and never broken one.

[MORNE]

50 minutes ago, LazyTrailRider said:

I’ve never actually considered this, but good point!

Then again, in 35 years of riding across dozens upon dozens of bikes, I’ve only once bent a hanger (probably 20 years ago), and never broken one.

Still good to know that its as commonly available as a quick link or tyre lever though. You can even take one off another bike in a pinch. 

I hear what you are saying, but I always used to buy a backup hanger “just in case”. That anxiety is not a thing anymore😁

Edited Friday at 07:17 PM by MORNE