When it comes to bike groupsets (simply put, the gears and brakes on your bike), Shimano is at the head of the pack. While SRAM and Campagnolo sit alongside them, Shimano is the most widely used of the three. One of the best things about Shimano is its offering for all ranges of t...
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The key decision is between a 1x (with a single chainring at the front) or 2x setup (with two chainrings on a double crankset). Super-compact chainsets are now common on 2x gravel cranksets. Dropping the chainring sizes to 48/31t or 46/30t, in the case of Shimano’s GRX gravel...
The current trend of the industry goes towards the transmission of 1x11 speeds. More and more enduro / all-mountain bicycles are fitted with this standard. Only the Sram and Shimano brands offer a double bottom bracket in the Boost standard so far. ...
Sachs/SRAM ClickboxesMany SRAM internal-gear hubs use a "Clickbox" which is held onto the axle by a thumbscrew. Like the bellcrank, this operates a pushrod or pushrods (sometimes a pullrod) inside the hollow hub axle. No adjustment is normally needed (or possible) to the Clickbox. Onc...
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or enthused, with the prevailing sentiment being that a bike build for an experienced rider should start with Shimano XT or SRAM X9. A customer at the shop memorably remarked along the lines of: "It's XTR or BUST for me, if I had to ride that cheap crap I'd quit mountain biking....
The usual suspects fordrivetrains– Shimano, SRAM and Campagnolo – don’t have much presence in singlespeed kit, apart from dedicated track-racing components. That leaves the field open to less well-known brands, such as Miche, Paul Components, Phil Wood and Sugino, as well as unknown brands...