Just received an email about this cassette.

Only 100 coming in the first batch to the UK next week.

270g and…£169.99!

Not bad at all! Not sure if that’s what you’re inferring or not…

£169.99 thats mental for a cassette surely?!

titanium?

Who is selling them?

Same as XTR, cheaper than X0/XX/X01/XX1, KCNC etc.

Ok…was speaking bollocks earlier. 260g and only 25 available in the UK and 100 worldwide.

Top 3 sprockets 1 piece alu, next 6 cro-mo and last steel.

Think I’ll stick with XT and wait for a single Works Components or Hope 40 or 42 cog.

Considering XO1 is 275g and 300rrp or 215 on CRC and XX1 is 260g and about 280 online I reckon I’d still be going for the 11sp options

XX 11-36 is 208g and you can pick them up for about 200.

Jonny – email jamie@balfeDOTcoDOTUK

Nice to see another option that allows me to keep my existing rear mech and shifter. Leonardi Factory have also produced a full cassette http://www.i-mtb.com/first-look-leonardi-general-lee-10-40t-cassette/

What has happened to this sport that people are starting to think £170 is ALRIGHT for a cassette!? 🙂 5-6 years ago the thinking was that £3000 was an absolute fortune for a bike, now people think that’s the average price. I just bought some oil to bleed my reverb that works out 20% the price of the branded rockshox stuff, and some latex for my tyres that’s 30% the price of stans stuff. Why on earth should an 10-40 cost £200ish when an 11-36 costs £30? Yes it’s new, but they should invest, knowing that bikers WILL buy enough stock to make the new machining tools pay!

All I can say is that the marketeers have done VERY well indeed!

Back on topic, 10-40, pah!; get bigger muscles!

matther01 – Member

Top 3 sprockets 1 piece alu, next 6 cro-mo and last steel.

Cro-mo is steel

Andy R just cut and pasted from the email

Why on earth should an 10-40 cost £200ish when an 11-36 costs £30?

All I can say is that the marketeers have done VERY well indeed!
Because the 30 quid one weighs heaps more. The XX that is costs the same has some very good longevity. There is a product for everyone in the market, you can have your 30quid one other people can have their expensive one.

650b isnt the great scandal of the idnustry forcing standards on us…

its this stupid bobbins where sram and shimano want us all to buy a new groupset (at silly prices) rather than just make us the cassette we want ie 10-40 10speed at xt cost/price

instead we have companies like general lee, trickstuff, oneup and hope coming in and offering what we want

I think we’ll just to wait for stuff to trikle down…so a year or two before it is affordable for the majority of us.

No ones mentioned the 11-40 xtr cassette ?

No ones mentioned the 11-40 xtr cassette ?

The 11 speed one from the forthcoming groupset? Different thing altogether.

Well considering the new XTR is still isn’t supposed to be public I can’t imagine there will be production until late summer at the earliest.

Anyway isnt XTR really only for racers and those with the money to buy it? Mixing and matching SLX and XT is about as affordable realistic as my needs are.

Anyway isnt XTR really only for racers and those with the money to buy it? Mixing and matching SLX and XT is about as affordable realistic as my needs are.

Isn’t any product only for those with the moeny to buy it, otherwise it’s called stealing…

I wish shimRAM would just make one for a reasonable price…

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/xt-11-42-cassette-for-free

No ones mentioned the 11-40 xtr cassette ?
The 11 speed one from the forthcoming groupset? Different thing altogether.

up there ^ xx? being compared to trickstuff/general lee 11 v10?

Well considering the new XTR is still isn’t supposed to be public

didn’t know it was a secret. pics have been floating about for a couple of weeks.

http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/f19/11-speed-xtr-265773/

up there ^ xx? being compared to trickstuff/general lee 11 v10?

XX is 10 speed… I observed that the Trickstuff one was cheaper than XX1, which itself is the same price as XX, but that was a general comment on the value (or not) of it.

Point is you could fit the Trickstuff one into an existing 10 speed group, the XX1 one requires at the very least a freehub body, chain, rear mech and shifter.

got it, got my xx’s in a bunch 😳

Anyway isnt XTR really only for racers and those with the money to buy it? Mixing and matching SLX and XT is about as affordable realistic as my needs are.

Isn’t any product only for those with the moeny to buy it, otherwise it’s called stealing…

Can’t you read? It’s for racers and those with £££. All racers get it free, silly.

If you’re sponsored you would get for free…unfortunately I’m sponsored by the bank manager and the wife, both of which are very tight with their money!

Can’t you read? It’s for racers and those with £££. All racers get it free, silly.

No they don’t. Most people pay for their kit. Some get a discount but still pay for it.

Agreed, the number of folk getting given kit outright is very small.