Well my friend, contrary to that loooong stretch you pedaled in the last vlog I saw from you this little piece of heaven here seemed to have been purposefully "cut" for your Pivot to "slash" through! Beautifull trail!! Great riding. And it's so good to see a fellow rider who has NOT fallen to the allures of an e-mtb and actually still uses a mechanical transmission. Oh, bliss! Seemed like a Sram shifter, am I wright? I made it a matter of pride that all my bikes had mechanical transmissions. Cheers from Coimbra, Portugal!
Thanks! Yes - this is a segment from that previous LONG ride. And yes again - no e-bikes here and mechanical transmission! My Pivot had SRAM - but my current bike (Knolly Chilcotin) has Shimano XT. I think I prefer the Shimano…
I'll tell you what: I only have Sram transmissions in all my bikes and I've built them all piece by piece...But, I received "my" bike nr 4 from Germany, full bike, and it came with a 7 speed gripshift shimano transmission. It's my daughter's bike, anniversary present as she turns 8 this week and so the "mtb dad" had to get her something special no other kid had. A beautifull purple Bergamont, very german, 20" wheels and already with a 40mm Sr Suntour fork. And when I was putting the bike together for her, late at night, exausted after a day tending to dozens of patients I thought to myself: hope the derrailleur doesn't ruin things...Well, the guys from Hibike store, in Kronberg, Germany tunned the bike there and after a week of poor care and bangs in the back of several trucks from Dhl the damn transmission worked as beautifully as I remembered a shimano transmission could ever work. Those guys NEVER from shimano never fail to impress!! Do you want to know why I only have Sram transmissions in my bikes? Because when I re-engaged with mtb, 25 years after dropping everything and becaming a doctor, I bought my first bike, a hardtail that came with a Sram NX 11-50T cassete and a GX derrailleur and shifter. And I was stunned at how spectacularly they worked and looked. The only things that still remain from that original bike are the transmission and frame, changed everything else! And so for my 2nd bike, the Stumpjumper, I bought a full GX Eagle boost mechanical transmission set and it was the best 399€ I coud have ever spent. I have no idea what it costs there in the US but here, that is a full blown bargain! Bought in the Alltricks site - biggest French cicling site. For my Propain I had already bought different Sram gear: XX1 bronze cassete and chain, X01 black/red Carbon derrailleur and shifter with matching carbon crankset. And you now something?...It's worse than the GX! All the carbon in the derrailleur made them use much stiffer springs and they followed that motto in the shifter as well. As the chain is a lot tenser as well it's harder to fine tune the damn thing and unconfortable to use. As well as slower to shift. But the grams you shave off...the beautifull design of the pieces...the bike looks stunning. With Shimano you only have black aluminium. XT: light enough and very, very reliable, XTR: still black aluminium but much lighter and still extremely reliable. And very, very expensive...Here, 1100€ for a full XTR transmission. I wanted my bikes to say something of myself: the owner likes beauty. And lightness. That's it! Cheers from Portugal.
Well my friend, contrary to that loooong stretch you pedaled in the last vlog I saw from you this little piece of heaven here seemed to have been purposefully "cut" for your Pivot to "slash" through! Beautifull trail!! Great riding. And it's so good to see a fellow rider who has NOT fallen to the allures of an e-mtb and actually still uses a mechanical transmission. Oh, bliss! Seemed like a Sram shifter, am I wright? I made it a matter of pride that all my bikes had mechanical transmissions. Cheers from Coimbra, Portugal!
Thanks! Yes - this is a segment from that previous LONG ride. And yes again - no e-bikes here and mechanical transmission!
My Pivot had SRAM - but my current bike (Knolly Chilcotin) has Shimano XT. I think I prefer the Shimano…
I'll tell you what: I only have Sram transmissions in all my bikes and I've built them all piece by piece...But, I received "my" bike nr 4 from Germany, full bike, and it came with a 7 speed gripshift shimano transmission. It's my daughter's bike, anniversary present as she turns 8 this week and so the "mtb dad" had to get her something special no other kid had. A beautifull purple Bergamont, very german, 20" wheels and already with a 40mm Sr Suntour fork. And when I was putting the bike together for her, late at night, exausted after a day tending to dozens of patients I thought to myself: hope the derrailleur doesn't ruin things...Well, the guys from Hibike store, in Kronberg, Germany tunned the bike there and after a week of poor care and bangs in the back of several trucks from Dhl the damn transmission worked as beautifully as I remembered a shimano transmission could ever work. Those guys NEVER from shimano never fail to impress!!
Do you want to know why I only have Sram transmissions in my bikes? Because when I re-engaged with mtb, 25 years after dropping everything and becaming a doctor, I bought my first bike, a hardtail that came with a Sram NX 11-50T cassete and a GX derrailleur and shifter. And I was stunned at how spectacularly they worked and looked. The only things that still remain from that original bike are the transmission and frame, changed everything else! And so for my 2nd bike, the Stumpjumper, I bought a full GX Eagle boost mechanical transmission set and it was the best 399€ I coud have ever spent. I have no idea what it costs there in the US but here, that is a full blown bargain! Bought in the Alltricks site - biggest French cicling site. For my Propain I had already bought different Sram gear: XX1 bronze cassete and chain, X01 black/red Carbon derrailleur and shifter with matching carbon crankset. And you now something?...It's worse than the GX! All the carbon in the derrailleur made them use much stiffer springs and they followed that motto in the shifter as well. As the chain is a lot tenser as well it's harder to fine tune the damn thing and unconfortable to use. As well as slower to shift. But the grams you shave off...the beautifull design of the pieces...the bike looks stunning. With Shimano you only have black aluminium. XT: light enough and very, very reliable, XTR: still black aluminium but much lighter and still extremely reliable.
And very, very expensive...Here, 1100€ for a full XTR transmission. I wanted my bikes to say something of myself: the owner likes beauty. And lightness. That's it! Cheers from Portugal.