The past two days both held some great knowledge and experience with the mountain bike industry at the shop. First, a nice progress slideshow of a Santa Cruz build I was nearly able to finish except for final tuning due to the need for new axle end caps for a rear DT Swiss hub on a thru axle Bronson C equipped with 10 speed Shimano XT Dynasys. It came together especially well with a Fox Float 36 with 180mm of travel. Other specs included a Cane Creek 40 headset, a tubeless Schwalbe Nobby Nic setup, a Thomson Masterpiece seatpost and Elite X4 stem, a Selle Italia mountain saddle, and Enve bars. Strong pretty much in all accounts for sweet jump style riding anywhere in this area. With included block spacers, the fork travel can be lowered down to the rider desired 150mm. Here it is nearly finished without grips and rear axle end caps.
The new XTR groupset showed up today on a Rocky Mountain frame and we got to spin through it and discuss with the rep the different features and possibilities with the mechanical version as well as the Di2 version coming soon. The expectations of riders from preview videos and info expos is well met. For mountain biking, I am very sure Shimano has a groupset for every rider from 3×11 to 1×11 in both mechanical and electronic. It’s a design update that really will help change the game and bring new levels of performance to the industry. Here are a few photos of the drivetrain.
Last but not least, I have discovered some good new information regarding troubleshooting the Stromer electric bike and will update the article and also provide the link here in the next few days. It streamlines the troubleshooting to either the components or the wires and clarifies a few earlier questions.
– SNC
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