It's the End of the Drivetrain as We Know It (And We Feel...)
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Matt and Jeff talk about the latest mountain bike drivetrain developments from electronic shifting to Eagle Transmission.
- What are the advantages of electronic shifting? What are the disadvantages?
- How does the new SRAM Eagle Transmission wireless electronic drivetrain compare to AXS?
- What's the deal with dropouts? Is UDH going to be the standard?
- How have consumers and readers responded to the Eagle Transmission news?
- How do you think Shimano will respond?
We'll also recap some of the latest mountain bike trail and gear news at the top of the show. Let us know what you think!
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| 0:00.0 | The Single Tracks podcast is brought to you by TPC, the Proz Closet. |
| 0:05.7 | Now is the perfect time to upgrade, and TPC has an industry-leading selection of new and certified |
| 0:11.9 | pre-owned bikes, plus frames, wheels, and accessories. Each certified pre-owned bike is inspected, |
| 0:19.0 | tested, and serviced, and every bike includes 30-day returns. |
| 0:24.1 | Visit tpc.bike forward slash single tracks and enter code single tracks $40 to save $40 on every order over 200. |
| 0:33.4 | That's the pros closet at tpc.bike slash single tracks and look for the link and coupon code in the show notes. |
| 0:42.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff and today Matt and I are going to |
| 0:48.9 | talk about mountain bike drive trains. There's been some news, new products and things |
| 0:55.0 | that have come out sort of recently. |
| 0:57.0 | And so yeah, we got a lot to talk about. |
| 0:59.7 | But before we do, Matt, let's talk about some of the stuff |
| 1:04.4 | that's happening in the mountain bike news lately. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.3 | So it's Thursday. We're recording on a Thursday. And you'll be listening to this |
| 1:14.9 | on a Tuesday. But on Thursdays, we do a feature called Trailflow. And it's where we recap all |
| 1:21.8 | the trail news of the past week. So yeah, what's going on with mountain bike trails this week, Matt? |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:30.1 | If we can get like one of those breaking news sound bites, |
| 1:34.3 | the drum roll and sirens and things like that, |
| 1:37.1 | it'd be a good cue for it. |
| 1:40.0 | No, yeah, a couple of news items from the past, |
| 1:43.6 | I guess two weeks that seemed worth recapping. |
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