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was looking at rosebikes the other day and they had stock of m6000 deore kit looks decent and brake levers are just like the newer xt/slx..
they even have a 10 speed 11-42t cassette £45 on ribble, which could come in usefull, yeah sunrace already make them.
not sure how it will get on alongside the slx, XT as pricing seems high when for an extra £10 you can go xt over slx and slx over deore
Cool, I think they announced that in Feb or so but I've never seen it in the wild. Price is decent, I bet it weighs as much as a small to medium child though.
Just in time eh 😆
Depends on use ... I suppose ...
The whole SLX + £10 - > XT is already pretty close and in the 67x 78x days was mostly just SLX a deliberately crippled version of the XT with a few grams of lighter bits ... i.e. brake levers had the stroke adjust screw removed and enlaced with the 2 pin job... and the callipers were identical except the label and the supplied split pin instead of bolt....
Unless you're replacing a part its hard to see why I'd get the SLX OVEr the XT for a tenner or less on a individual component level... the cassette was probably one area worth splashing out as the XT was significantly lighter (the difference probably more than both brakes and shifters weight difference)
Crankwise the old SLX was probably a better crankset ... at least the difference was the pedeal inserts on the SLX vs straight into soft alloy for XT ....
Deore was perfectly functional, it just had parts that would rust and were a bit heavier ... except no clutch mech
However all that seemed to change on M7000/M8000 at least gears
The M7000 is significantly different in terms of feel and pressure required to change gear.
If you have small hands (small woman or kid) it might be better than the XT as its less pressure to change.. If you're racing then perhaps the extra pressure and corresponding positive shifts on M8000 are worth it but I reckon in some way's SLX M7000 is better than M8000 now.
Especially as they are still compatible so you can get SLX mech and shifters and XT cassette
Strangely M685 is rated to 42T whereas M785 is only rated to 36T (officially as this was down to release times)
So with all that speculating the surprise market Deore might be because they made SLX so good they no longer have a clear higher mid-budget set ???
I expect the volume pricing will be a bigger difference for the bike co's to knock out higher spec budget bikes but it will be more fragile so when it breaks the end user is paying £10-£20 less than the SLX-XT?
