Shimano XTR Di2 – First Look with video.

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We’ve had a Shimano XTR Di2 group set on a test bike for a few weeks now and Chipps has been giving it a good testing for an in-depth review coming soon, but in the meantime we brought in local bike shop owner and Premier Dealer, Dave Brown of Cycle Addicts, Rochdale to ask him some questions about this new and revolutionary MTB group set.

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In part 1 Chipps and Dave look at our own dual ring setup of Di2 on our Pivot

Part 1

https://vimeo.com/123219347

In Part 2 Dave runs Chipps through an explanation of how he has his own bike setup to use Di2 for enduro racing.

Part 2

https://vimeo.com/123219522

 

A closer look at our Di2 Dual setup.

 

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Comments (8)

    world.of.spamworld.of.spam March 26, 2015 at 1:06 pm

    Interestingly that enduro bike show casing shimano’s new finest has been has had to be heavily modified (narrow wide chainring and 42 tooth range expander cog by the look of it ), to run the 1 x 11 set up that a lot of people would love to have from shimano right now. Maybe 2016 for XTR and 2017 for XT ?

    ChippsChipps March 26, 2015 at 1:34 pm

    That’s a stock XTR 11-40 cassette on there, W-o-S. As for the cranks, the Shimano single rings seem very hard to get hold of at the moment, so Dave has gone with Race Face (and they’re carbon and he’s a show-off…)

    AlexSimonAlexSimon March 26, 2015 at 3:27 pm

    Interesting about the clutch strength.
    I’ll be keeping a close eye on whether this will work with a Sram 10-42 cassette. Many people running the mechanical XTR with success, so definitely a possibility.

    ultimateweevilultimateweevil March 26, 2015 at 6:30 pm

    It is interesting, but I can’t see why you’d spend £££’s over a mechanical system given you still operate it in exactly the same way, the benefits as pointed out in the first video just aren’t compelling enough to make me want to spend the extra for it.

    matt_outandaboutmatt_outandabout March 26, 2015 at 9:15 pm

    Yeah, but it is pimp.

    daveb2251981daveb2251981 March 26, 2015 at 9:52 pm

    There are a more benefits to the DI2 like speed, ease of gear change and how you just click and forget, couldn’t fit them all in the short edit. Anybody wanting to demo the DI2 and is local to Rochdale can demo the bike and the system. Admittedly the cost is big but everybody who has tested the system has come back with the same question “how much is it”

    Jason BarkerJason Barker March 27, 2015 at 12:12 pm

    Don’t let shimano see you I was on the Cannock chase last Sunday and their rep looked down his nose at my xx1/xtr/oneup transmission and wouldn’t believe that there were alternatives to full shimano integration for a fully capable trail bike…mind you I told him the whole transmission only cost me £300 not £1500 he wanted for his

    ononeorangeononeorange March 29, 2015 at 10:58 pm

    I’m very split on this. One part of me says get that in real mud and it’ll just die – more to go wrong etc and the other part loves the fact there’s nothing to adjust. I can’t index for toffee – current setup is all out and leaping everywhere – so I love the idea. Probably one of those things that’s good on paper, sadly.

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