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Fingers-on with the brand new SRAM Drive AXS groupset – actual weights vs Shimano Ultegra

Like the unique, the brand new 2023 SRAM Drive AXS is a 12-speed wi-fi street bike groupset. Actually, modifications from the previous-generation groupset have been small, and largely to the shifters, the 2x crankset and the entrance derailleur. The excellent news is the value hasn’t modified. SRAM has despatched us a whole groupset to check, […]

SRAM’s second-generation Power AXS digital groupset takes cues from Rival and refines entrance derailleur

The brand new SRAM Power eTap AXS groupset sees updates to the shifters, cranksets and entrance derailleur, alongside new shiny graphics. There’s a change to naming conventions, with SRAM dropping eTap from the groupset’s title – so, henceforth, it’s simply SRAM Power AXS. SRAM has made minimal or no modifications to lots of the different […]

Cues is a win for groupset compatibility – however come on Shimano, simply give us a mullet!

Shimano’s new Cues groupset is being billed as an inexpensive, adaptable, extensively appropriate and easy-to-understand vary of elements that can make life simpler for bike manufacturers and shoppers. Whereas that’s all more likely to be true, Shimano has missed a trick by not leaning into the inherent adaptability of Cues (you’ll be able to learn […]

Prototype SRAM Purple highway shifters noticed – is a brand new high-end groupset coming quickly?

Plenty of skilled riders have been noticed utilizing prototype SRAM Purple highway shifters at coaching camps and at cyclocross races in latest weeks. Movistar Staff riders have been seen utilizing unbranded highway shifters with a special form to the current-generation SRAM Purple eTap AXS shifters at a coaching camp in Alicante. In a video posted […]

Is SRAM about to launch an Apex eTap AXS digital groupset?

SRAM could also be readying itself to launch an Apex eTap AXS wi-fi digital groupset, in line with paperwork filed with the US Federal Communications Fee (FCC). Although many of the paperwork and images submitted to the FCC have been granted confidentiality, paperwork displaying the location of wi-fi ID labels on each proper and left-hand […]

New Shimano GRX? This is our want listing for Shimano’s next-generation gravel groupset

The incessant tempo of gravel tech waits for no rider and, three-and-a-half years after the launch of Shimano GRX, it’s time to compile our want listing for the subsequent era of the Japanese big’s gravel groupsets. When GRX arrived as Shimano’s first gravel-specific groupset in 2019, the model launched three tiers of parts. These are […]

Palms-on with the brand new Shimano 105 Di2 R7100 groupset – unboxing and actual weights

Shimano’s new 105 Di2 groupset provides a long-anticipated third tier to the model’s digital shifting. Sitting under Dura-Ace R9200 and Ultegra R8100, it shares a variety of tech with these two groupsets, simply with barely fewer flashy supplies and elevated weight. It’s that weight we’re going to deal with right here – Shimano provided claimed […]