Those e*thirteen folks were showing a lot of new stuff at the show – the company’s cassette, that we saw at Sea Otter is now near enough ready to roll. It comes as a 10 or 11 speed – with a 9-44T and 9-42T range respectively. The bigger two (or three) sprockets are machined from alloy, while the other eight or nine are very machined-out steel. It fits a SRAM xD driver only.
No UK price yet, but it’ll be less than SRAM’s equivalent and will be out in the new year.
The two jumbo-est sprockets are machined as a pairJust add this lot to the rear pair and you have a cassette!Three sprockets from the 11sp cassetteThis is an unfinished chainring – just to show how it’s done
Meanwhile, nearly all of e*thirteen’s wheels are going over to a new carbon rim profile. There’ll still be a few alloy wheel models, but the focus is now on wide, 27mm internal carbon rims with a hookless bead. The hubs are the same as before, but there’s a new rim tape that’s stretchier and which conforms to the rim bed better.
New hookless carbon rim profileCarbon TRS wheels waiting for a new owner
The carbon cranks are all built to downhill certification, but the TRS model weighs just 441g (without rings) and the LG1 DH crank is 459g.
XC cranks tested to DH standards. Should be pretty bomber, then.Dial this in to remove play.The bash/skid plate still has many fans. Clutches are only so good.A front latch allows the guide to be installed without removing chain or cranks
With 25 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps holds the record for the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994.
Chipps stepped down as Editor in April 2026 after 25 years at the helm. He's now wondering what to do next, while riding his bike in the French Pyrenees, where he also runs some gites.
