A of people seem to say not to bother with SRAM shifting below XO.
I'm a happy XT and SLX user.
I'm a happy XT and SLX user.
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So am I, but the cassette is a GX since that's what came with the bike.
I'm wondering for my new build what brand cassette is longer lasting.
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Ehh x01 eagle shifting ain't that great the upshift lever is still pretty mushy and it's really not any different from brand new nx. I'm sure it'll shift decently longer than 6 months like nx though. Still miss the double up shift from xt.
Give the Garbaruk a shot if you do not choose xt.
GX and XT will last about the same in East Coast conditions. Maybe 1500 miles. The Garbaruk and X01 will last longer. The Garbaruk has a thinner 1st gear and will wear faster than the X01. I retired a Garbaruk at 3900 miles for a X01. Since my wife's is still going strong.
Heat threaded steel is for xd, micro spline gets only heat treated.
I'm running XTR cassette, XTR chain, XT shifter/Der. It's really good. Not cheap.
You can tell the XTR cassette by the 3 large black rings. Versus XT's 2 black large rings.
My thumb tendonitis doesn't miss it. Why did they make it take so much force? The X01 upshifts are like a light single-action trigger, I can even position my shifters so I can do it with my thumb joint without taking my thumb off the bar or pushing. I can shift faster with this than the extra-heavy XT/XTR upshift which is bizarrely heavy IMO.
BOOM! CRC/Ragley have taken 7 days to complete this whole process!
Stick took out a pile of spokes on my rear wheel a few weeks ago. One of the spokes pulled out trashing the rim. These were Ibis carbon wheels that came on a bike I bought used. Despite technically not having to help me as I wasn't the original owner Ibis offered me a crash replacement for a little more than a nice aluminum rim and less than the cheapest Light Bikes rim and actually had shit in stock.
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I do not like SRAM eagle drivetrains even at XO level, but I swapped out a rear wheel with an XTR cassette onto a GX drivetrain and it works great. I prefer the multiple upshifts of Shimano but that just takes a few minutes to get used to rapid clicking.
$15,000 pro purse for the Men and Women.
Not NFL money but for a 1 day DH race, pretty impressive.
Would be great to see the US Open return to its glory days of the early/mid 2000's with some top level international talent showing up. Those were the days.
15k should bring a stacked field
do they need to be vaxxed?
Are male and female fields equally strong? Does the payout scheme is the same (how many places deep and how much for each)?
is first place not first place?
Ladies first, off course!
Sure, but is payout e.g. 10 deep in each category with equal money or is it just equal price money for the first place and the second place already gets nothing anymore for the females?
Yeah, should have made it a week before Snowshoe. Wonder how they use to draw so many top guys when it was at Diablo Memorial day weekend?
No, we weren't last time I looked there was under 10 females in a UCI race. Not sure it should be split evenly. It should be based on the number of entrants.
Chicken, Egg.
I think we can all agree that $15k is not sufficient money any way you slice it.
Other than like the top 10 TDF road racers, does anyone?
75% of the riders surveyed make $50k or less. and that's across xc, enduro, DH, and freeride slopestyle.
when you look at just DH, nearly half of them (~46%) make $5k or less.
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We offered any rider that had finished in the top 40 of their discipline in the past two seasons the opportunity to take part in the survey
and they had nearly 200 responses.
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Correct, but it isn't just the highest tier road riders that make a decent living. That is 19 teams with about 28 riders each.
This. Having friends from both disciplines I can only agree. The training and racing the roadie friends do or did is in no way comparable to the chilled and relaxed kind of life all three dh wc pro racers I personally know enjoy. As is their salary.
I haven't watched a Tour since Lemond in 89 I believe. That was the last true SOLO Tour win. That's the year after being shot correct when his team abandoned him? I would just get US Tobacco to throw $4-5Million at an MTB series and hand out legit purses.
People bitching about prize money purses in MTB vs Road is like when someone decides to skip doing a trade job and become a yoga instructor and then complaining they can't afford shit.
Similarly, I've got mates that moved to Whistler complaining that the rent is too high and the pay is too low. *cue tiny violin*
Similarly, I've got mates that moved to Whistler complaining that the rent is too high and the pay is too low. *cue tiny violin*
Maybe once we have 50 state legal pot we'll see that. I think there's better customer acquisition potential with that type is smoke in dhmtb.
I'm waiting until I turn 50 to move to Whiz and become a dirtbag.