Welcome back to the Cyclotips Podcast, everybody. I'm Kayle Fritz and we have a special

episode for you today. James, I'm just going to throw straight to you. What are we talking about today? Oh, so much pressure. We are talking about

SRAM's new rival E-TAP axis electronic group set, Wireless of course. We're going to go dive into the ins and outs of what this is, what it isn't,

what it works with, what it doesn't work with, what it costs, what it's going to come with, so

on and so forth. We're going to just go ahead and jump right in.

And as always, we do these sort of episodes on a somewhat regular basis and I've said this before. We partner up with SRAM for this episode, but the kind of ground rules are that we ask whatever we want to

which is why James is here if that wasn't the rules I don't think he'd come

so that's that's how we operate in these special podcasts and with that let's get on with the

episode.

So we do have some special guests with us here today.

Why don't you both introduce yourselves so listeners out there can put a name to a voice.

Hi, I'm Kate Paulson. I'm the Road Brand Manager at Stram.

And I'm Paul Cantor, Road Director at Stram. And I'm Paul Cantor, a road director at Stram.

All right, well welcome to both of you.

I'm going to throw it back to James actually.

I don't feel particularly useful in this episode actually.

James, it's all on you now. James, where are we kicking off?

What's our first question? Why are these things always on me? I feel like I'm always the one

shouldering everything with these things. Anyway. Because you have the list of questions that's why. Which I sent to you and anyway. I mean I could read your questions and pretend that they were mine but then I'm just stealing your work so I'll let you do it.

Yeah, all right well if you're gonna put it that way.

All right, Paul, we are gonna start with kind of like the 10,000 foot view, I guess.

Can you first and foremost explain what exactly is rival access?

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