When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We'd long heard rumblings of a new 11-speed mountain bike group coming from SRAM and we expected ...

SRAM took all of the technologies that have made the XX1 rear derailleur successful with single ring setups and applied them to a Force-level rear derailleur. This includes: The Type 2 Roller Bearing ...

“I’m inspired by people who've pushed their bodies to the limit,” Atherton shared. Proper bike function, including the chain, is a must for pushing the limits. As there are numerous bike-chain ...

Less than a decade ago the 1x drivetrain — a single front chainring with a large rear cassette — was an outlier, found primarily on homemade franken-bikes. Since the advent of the front derailleur in ...

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Single chainring cyclocross setups are as old as the sport cyclocross, and for decades racers simply ground down two chainrings to form double chainring guards to prevent the chain from falling off ...

The past decade has been a dark one for Shimano in the mountain biking category. As SRAM pioneered the 1x drivetrain and followed quickly with the Eagle 12-speed gear range — completely antiquating ...

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It's that time of year when bike manufacturers start to announce what's coming for the next model year. Given that this will be 2019 product, it also marks the final line of the decade. Which gives ...