[webmonkey365]

Can you create an affordable alternative to SRAM's impressive XX1 single-ring drivetrain (an XX1 hack, if you will)? And would it actually offer XX1-level performance? We're about to find out.

Preview: The XX1 Hack

 

[unrooted]

I'm excited to see how it works for you. I'm doing the same thing, but I have to buy all new parts cause I'm moving from 9 speed to 10 speed. Right now I'm waiting for my One-up 42t.

 

[GodSmack]

Call it a Granny cog.

 

[Jm_]

Yes, I'm using a single ring with a 36t rear cassette. Holy crap, I should get some kind of award for figuring this out. Everyone knows it's impossible to climb hills though on a 36t, because 10 years ago we were using 32t and 10 years before that 28-30.

It gets better though, I figured out that when I installed the XX1 crankset, I could take off the front derailleur AND the front shifter.

 

[Jm_]

I heard that if you have a tapered headset you don't have to run a tapered fork. Is that true?

 

[Jm_]

What about tubeless, do you have to run the tubeless rims and tires?

 

[GodSmack]

I heard that if you have a tapered headset you don't have to run a tapered fork. Is that true?

yes sir

 

[GodSmack]

What about tubeless, do you have to run the tubeless rims and tires?

mandatory. Don't forget your tubeless tire levers.

 

[okiecalvin]

What chain will you run?

 

[agenthamsta]

So what's the final price if you're spec'ing this out from scratch. I'd have to covert my current 9 speed to the 10 speed. So it'd be more than what I was hoping to spend on the conversion.

 

[r1Gel]

"designed to make sweet mechanical love to one another"
LOL