In answer to the discussions taking place over the mud clearing capacity of ten speed here’s a couple of close ups of the cassette.
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- Front view of the SRAM XX cassette
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- SRAM XX cassette rear view
and here’s one with the full 10 cogs, yay for the Tech truck.
As you can see there’s plenty of opportunity for crud to clear, they’re comparing the action to a German salad spinner. Unfortunately Tuscany has the wrong sort of mud (there was a metre of it on today’s ride) to test out how well it works.
ohh so the 10th gear IS the lockring. Very clever.
That’s going to fill up with the local clay in winter, there again not much is good at resisting the stuff round these parts. Pretty machining.
So the cassette (which I consider a consumable) is going to be about £220!!
I’ll be sticking to XT which still makes me wince when I have to replace it.