SRAM X.O Twist Shifters

[JasonW]

Has anybody had any long term experience with these. They seem very popular in the pro ranks and are very lightweight, but are they reliable as ordinary trigger shifters or dual control?

[GoLefty!!]

Yes

[Mudsimus]

They are more reliable and durable than trigger or dual control shifters. And the multiple clicks on the front der is the best thing since sliced bread.

[GT oke]

i have them from last year or the year before and never but never had any problems with them!!!! and they are the fastest shifting gears there is so on xc it helps alot! Take them if you want to buy some i can assure you, you would love them!!! and there are about nine clicks in both derailleurs so if your chain hits the front derailleur then you can just manage it so it doesnt make a noise!GT oke2008-08-27 07:11:03

[TitusTi]

They're nice but I find they rip my hands on really long rides (over 8 hours).

[GT oke]

They're nice but I find they rip my hands on really long rides (over 8 hours).

wear gloves.. they did the same to my in xc coz your changing gears alot in xc but marathons it does nothing!

[MintSauce]

Don't like them because they're tricky to shift in technical situations. That's just me.

 

Lots of people love them though. Try before you buy.

 

 

 

[Dirtbreath]

Have any of you compared to dual control? ie actually ridden both?

[AndreZA]

I've tried the older generation a few years back and I did not like them either. Whenever ther is a jump or a bunnyhop I use to shift. With levers they are out of the way and you can use the whole grip to move your hands around.

 

 

[Newboy]

Had the dual control on my Specialized and now Gripshifts on my Elsworth. I will never ride anything else again. They are durable and shifts accurately everytime.

[GoLefty!!]

Yes I've ridden bothDual control and Gripshift on two different bikes I owned at one time.

 

Dualcontrol is in my opinion the ultimate shifting system. You can shift from thebar ends, while braking and coupled to a rapid ride rear derailleur, you can shift at low cadence on technicla terrain. Gripshift runs it a close 2nd, followed by Rapid Fire and then the X-Gen Impulse shifters X-0, X.0 etc.

 

I use the Gripshift because it is much lighter than the other systems, its reliable and easy to repair anywhere.

 

I don't like the Sram triggers much simply because the release lever's cam profileis too aggressive which results in a couple of rapid up shifts if intend to only make one upshift.  Very annoying..

 

If you chose Sram, go Gripshift. If you chose Shimano, go Dual Control.

And forget about all the fears about if you fall then the DC'siewll break an they are expensive to replace. I had mine for 5 yrs and they worked like clockework through european mud, South african mud, Sani2C, Cape Epic Lighthouse to lighhouse. I've fallen with them and the lever moves out the way to prevent major damage. Tehy are brilliant.

 

gripshifts are also brilliant because if you have a fall, theres no paddle levers to take skinoff your knees!

[TitusTi]

Ridden triggers, grips and dual controls of all varities.

At this point am very happy with the Sram X.9 triggers. Am not chaning to anything else for a while.

Thanks for the tip on the gloves there Captain Obvious.

[JasonW]

Thanks for the advice!

[MintSauce]

I tried the dualcontrol, admittedly not enough to get completely used to them. For me, they involve removing one of the forward fingers from the bar.

 

With a thumb resting on a trigger shifter I can still manuevre the bike any way necessary.

 

Place just an index finger on a dualcontrol and the reach causes the middle finger to also lift slightly off the bar. This adversly affects the power of my grip on the bar and means that it's practicaly impossible to man-handle the bike in tight technical situation or lift it off the ground.

 

In some situation I can lift the bike and while in the air click up or down a gear. Same goes for nose-wheelies to place the rear of the bike.

 

With gripshift or daulcontrol this is simply not possible for me.....YMMV.

 

 

 

 

[JasonW]

GoLefty, what is the weight difference between an XTR (new) dual control setup and a SRAM grip shift setup? Obviously it depends on the brakes you use for the SRAM setup, but is it significant?

[intern]

Grip shifters rock hard. I always used to like the idea of triggers, but once you use grippers you find out just how fast they are to make a shift (especially when paired with an XO rear derailleur). Sure you will get 'grip shift thumb' at least initially, but the bugger toughens up pretty quick. Some okes whine about sore thumbs from triggers on the longer rides (Epic, for example) so I reckon it is six of the one half a dozen of the other where that's concerned.