Whatever you think about the outlandish cost you have to admire the lunacy of the engineering..
"eight of the cogs are CNC-machined together out of a single block of billet steel, creating an incredibly lightweight, precise, and strong cassette. Itâs a process that takes nine hours per cassette."
I might end up having on my bike next year as it simply comes on the bike 'stock'. Bit of an issue though, it doesn't work with any of the rest of my wheels, spares etc.. Imagine buying a few spare cassettes... Currently I use XT for about â¬40. I'll probably end pulling it off and putting X0/gripshift back on.
For racing it is a nice enough idea. with a 38t front chain ring and 11-36 on the rear, I would never leave the big ring - still, the prices are crazy. RRP is usually a lot more then you would eventually pay for XTR/Sram kit.
Another gripe - they have not made twist shift shifters. Triggers work fine but twist shift is lighter, cheaper, less things to go wrong and I don't bash my knee off them if I fall.
That's their trick, hypnotise you with their 9 hour to make whirly bits, and as you stagger around the showroom they kosh over the head with a set of 160mm forks and empty your wallet, those cunning SRAM shylocks.
I can see the ads for this, I guy staring at a cassette with a price tag on it, in a glass case with the caption..
Whatever you think about the outlandish cost you have to admire the lunacy of the engineering..
"eight of the cogs are CNC-machined together out of a single block of billet steel, creating an incredibly lightweight, precise, and strong cassette. Itâs a process that takes nine hours per cassette."
I might end up having on my bike next year as it simply comes on the bike 'stock'. Bit of an issue though, it doesn't work with any of the rest of my wheels, spares etc.. Imagine buying a few spare cassettes... Currently I use XT for about â¬40. I'll probably end pulling it off and putting X0/gripshift back on.
For racing it is a nice enough idea. with a 38t front chain ring and 11-36 on the rear, I would never leave the big ring - still, the prices are crazy. RRP is usually a lot more then you would eventually pay for XTR/Sram kit.
Another gripe - they have not made twist shift shifters. Triggers work fine but twist shift is lighter, cheaper, less things to go wrong and I don't bash my knee off them if I fall.
That's their trick, hypnotise you with their 9 hour to make whirly bits, and as you stagger around the showroom they kosh over the head with a set of 160mm forks and empty your wallet, those cunning SRAM shylocks.
I can see the ads for this, I guy staring at a cassette with a price tag on it, in a glass case with the caption..
Whatever you think about the outlandish cost you have to admire the lunacy of the engineering..
"eight of the cogs are CNC-machined together out of a single block of billet steel, creating an incredibly lightweight, precise, and strong cassette. Itâs a process that takes nine hours per cassette."
I might end up having on my bike next year as it simply comes on the bike 'stock'. Bit of an issue though, it doesn't work with any of the rest of my wheels, spares etc.. Imagine buying a few spare cassettes... Currently I use XT for about â¬40. I'll probably end pulling it off and putting X0/gripshift back on.
For racing it is a nice enough idea. with a 38t front chain ring and 11-36 on the rear, I would never leave the big ring - still, the prices are crazy. RRP is usually a lot more then you would eventually pay for XTR/Sram kit.
Another gripe - they have not made twist shift shifters. Triggers work fine but twist shift is lighter, cheaper, less things to go wrong and I don't bash my knee off them if I fall.
That's their trick, hypnotise you with their 9 hour to make whirly bits, and as you stagger around the showroom they kosh over the head with a set of 160mm forks and empty your wallet, those cunning SRAM shylocks.
I can see the ads for this, I guy staring at a cassette with a price tag on it, in a glass case with the caption..
