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captainspauldin

captainspauldin

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New XTR has been announced...

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/first-look-shimanos-new-xtr-m9100-is-more-than-just-12-speed.html

Takeaways:
  • New freehub body standard allowing a 10-51T cassette
  • 12 speed, but can be run as 11 speed for some reason
  • New bondage aluminum direct mount crankset
  • New I-Spec standard (fuck off, 4th I-spec standard shimano has come up with)
  • New brakes, hopefully these don't suck or aren't disposable like the current crop of x000 brakes.
  • XC and Enduro specific brake sets, 4pot for enduro, 2pot for xc.
 
Jeremy R

Jeremy R

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I like so much about the new xtr, but damn it, that new free hub standard is a head scratcher. Hardly anybody uses Shimano hubs. If they would have adopted sram's xd driver, we could have actually had a single standard for everyone going forward. Lizards.
 
Electric_City

Electric_City

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Yeah, so I thought since nobody buys our hubs or puts them on their bikes as OEM, let's invent a standard that nobody will be able to use. Right?

Dude, sweet ride! How's that new Shimano stuff?

It's great, but the cassette is sram.

They just chopped down their market by 90% when it comes to cassette purchases.
 
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captainspauldin

captainspauldin

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Electric_City said:
Yeah, so I thought since nobody buys our hubs or puts them on their bikes as OEM, let's invent a standard that nobody will be able to use. Right?

Dude, sweet ride! How's that new Shimano stuff?

It's great, but the cassette is sunrace.

They just chopped down their market by 90% when it comes to cassette purchases.
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FTFY, since SRAM won't sell OEMs just an Eagle Cassette without the whole drivetrain.
 
Sandwich

Sandwich

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the cassette standard is stupid. THey should have just copped SRAM's setup. I don't like saying it, but it's been on the market for several years now. Dropping your cassette on people's wheels, which they already have, is like a no-brainer. Forcing people to buy new cassette bodies or new wheels so they can "upgrade" is dumb. While I know this is XTR, and supposedly no-holds-barred the best, it still just doesn't make sense.

Also, I would love that dropper remote, but too bad it's ipec9000 compatible only.
 
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Sandwich said:
the cassette standard is stupid. THey should have just copped SRAM's setup. I don't like saying it, but it's been on the market for several years now. Dropping your cassette on people's wheels, which they already have, is like a no-brainer. Forcing people to buy new cassette bodies or new wheels so they can "upgrade" is dumb. While I know this is XTR, and supposedly no-holds-barred the best, it still just doesn't make sense.

Also, I would love that dropper remote, but too bad it's ipec9000 compatible only.
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Do you think SRAM would have allowed Shimano to license one of their products?
 
FlipSide

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Sandwich said:
the cassette standard is stupid. THey should have just copped SRAM's setup. I don't like saying it, but it's been on the market for several years now. Dropping your cassette on people's wheels, which they already have, is like a no-brainer. Forcing people to buy new cassette bodies or new wheels so they can "upgrade" is dumb. While I know this is XTR, and supposedly no-holds-barred the best, it still just doesn't make sense.
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It sounds like Shimano was open to that but SRAM didn't want to license the XD driver. There's probably more to the story though...

Pinkbike article said:
Shimano says that the chances of licensing the XD driver were near zero and that Micro Spline gave them more options to optimize their cassette.
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SkullCrack

SkullCrack

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From the NSMB article:

The (SRAM) XD compatible driver body design is an open standard available to any hub manufacturer interested in producing a driver body compatible with the XX1 10-42 11-speed cassette (or current Eagle cassettes - Ed.). This open standard allows hub manufacturer to design an XD compatible driver body that works with their own ratchet design. - From SRAM literature.

 
slimshady

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Meh.







I have quite a few shimanero friends down here. One of them -who was eagerly waiting for the press release- told me yesterday "looks like a Box derailleur paired to a Leonardi cassette and a cheap crankset".

I feel XTR was and still is like a gold rack on your teeth. Cheesy bling you wear to try to look gangsta or badass, or dentist stuff, to put it in RM dialect. They are late to the party and seems like they can't for the love of @FSM figure out the cassette jumps. The crappy proprietary cassette spline makes things worse. And good luck with that magnesium master cylinder. Fancy exchanging them under warranty every two months? If their aluminum brake levers last less than a year without the dreaded bite point randomness, imagine how long the magnesium ones will last without ovalizing the master cylinder's bore.
 
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Wuffles

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Likes:

- Going to 1 more solely to piss off SRAM.
- The blatantly infringing narrow-wide chain ring tooth just to piss of SRAM.
- The fact that the Shimano fanboy crowd just got 4 new standards added to the mix, and none of them are backwards compatible.

Dislikes:

- New hub standards. I bet it's .0001% better in some utterly irrelevant way to XD, but since only Shimano and DT are making hubs for it, I don't give a damn.
- Still sticking with cup-and-cone. The 1890s called, they want their stupid design back. For every monkey whining about "better at dealing with the angular force generated in my massive legs!" I refer you to the concept of an angular contact bearing, used in all decent hubs (or at least you can put them in as replacements) now shut up. Shoulda died with the QR axle...
- New chainring standards. Guaranteed I will never run a Shimano crankset again.
- New I-spec (version... 4???). Just call it I-change, at least it would be an honest description.
- Two piece brake calipers. Refer to the Frankenbrake thread, this is terrible engineering in the name of cutting costs.
- The prices. That 12 speed cassette is $380 MSRP, a set of endurpo XTR brakes is $650 MSRP, and the 2x crankset $590 MSRP. Even assuming the normal 50% Shimano online discount, that's still stupid.
 
Jm_

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rideit said:
the Boost/cl xtr from last time around was 277 for the rear...
The new one is 231 grams
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Thought the 9000 was around 240, but that was before boost.

At least there are pedals? They haven’t managed to change the spindle standard yet? That’s about the only shimano part left that they haven’t F-ed up and that I’ll still buy now. No derailleurs, cassettes, hubs, cranks or brakes for me.
 
HardtailHack

HardtailHack

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shirk007 said:
Fishing reels, they make fishing reels.
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And the clutch system in a rear mech is pretty much how a drag system on a reel works.

The hub weights are impressive, same as Syntace MX hubs but they have normal bearings, normal cassette body and still has bearing adjustment.
 
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