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Radical SRAM crankset patent incorporates three rotating derailleurs

Is bicycle shifting about to get some entirely fresh technology? A recently patented application shows that SRAM has been hard at work designing a wireless front derailleur system unlike anything seen before – with three separate gear-changing mechanisms that rotate with the crankset. It’s made possible by motorized derailleurs and wireless communication with the shift …

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Bikes of the Bunch: Saffron Frameworks stainless steel forever bike

In this week’s Bikes of the Bunch, we look at a lovely lightweight and timeless custom steel ride from the London-based builder Saffron Frameworks. Both the bike’s owner and the bike’s builder offer insight into the creation of this new rim-braked “forever” road bike. A bike forever A forever bike. It’s the bike that, at …

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SRAM ups the ante with new 10-52T Eagle 12-speed cassette

As the first 12-speed drivetrain offering on the market, SRAM’s Eagle drivetrain, with its 500% gear range, firmly drove a nail into the coffin of front derailleurs on mountain bikes. It was more than two years later that Shimano joined the 12-speed MTB game, entering the fray with a 10-51T cassette compared to SRAM’s 10-50T. …

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The many bikes of Tom Pidcock: Road, CX, MTB and gravel

Triple threats aren’t limited to the entertainment industry — they exist in the sporting world too. There are many examples of triple threats in cycling, those riders that seamlessly transition from one discipline to another while eating the specialist riders’ lunch in the process. Mathieu Van der Poel (MVDP) and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot are perhaps the …

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SRAM Force eTap AXS goes big with new wide-range gearing options

SRAM is filling a conspicuous gearing hole in its Force eTap AXS 12-speed wireless groupset with the introduction of a new wider-range 10-36T cassette and smaller 43/30T chainrings, both of which should markedly expand the capabilities of the company’s second-tier wireless groupset. Not surprisingly, SRAM intends for the new cassette and chainrings to find the …

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