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Read our first ride impressions here: https://singletrackworld.com/2020/06/first-ride-review-2021-sram-gx-eagle-2-more-teeth-and-520-range/
SRAM has updated the GX Eagle with a new 10-52t cassette, and 520% range. In this video, Andi goes over all the details of the new drivetrain.
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everyone and you from singletrack again
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you may have already seen me live on the
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topless road actually oh it can't so no
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you may have already seen me live on
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YouTube not YouTube on Facebook and
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Instagram but now I'm going live on
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YouTube with the new Schramm GX eagle
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now I'm gonna turn the camera around and
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like you know all the details so here we
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go the new Schramm GX eagle has a 1052
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cassette giving a range of five hundred
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and twenty percent that new cassette new
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large checker here is two teeth
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larger than the original five hundred
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percent cassette so this gives you a 20%
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more range and a larger easier bailout
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gear so when you get to some really big
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climbs you've got that to rely on so it
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starts at ten goes all the way to 42 and
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all of these cogs here as steel the
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largest 52 is aluminium and they're all
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pinned together with stainless steel
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pins everything on the back is machined
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away so you've got as lighter cassette
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as possible for the price the price is a
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hundred ninety six pounds it weighs four
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hundred and fifty two grams and you can
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run this on all of the new Eagle Drive
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trains but you do need the updated rear
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derailleur so that because the new 52
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tooth cog is so big the old Eagle rear
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derailleur will not shift down correctly
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if you use it so SRAM of had to update
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the system with a new rear derailleur it
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has new pivot placements it has new
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architecture it has improved jockey
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wheels and overall it's a better and
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smoother and higher quality GX rear mech
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than before so if you're looking at this
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and you want to run five hundred and
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twenty percent you're going to need the
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new derailleur to go with it but if for
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example you have a current GX or ego
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drivetrain that needs a new mech my
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suggestion would be go for the new rear
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mech because this is backward compatible
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you can run that with the five hundred
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percent cassette
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and then when money allows you can move
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to this you can get that bigger range if
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you want it so the big change is the
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fact that you've got more range we've
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got a bigger granny gear a bigger
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bailout gear but another change for GX
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is that Shrem have really improved the
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look of it and nothing in this
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drivetrain shows that better than these
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cranks now SRAM is offering two version
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of chain set for the new GX I've got the
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carbon-fiber GX chain set which comes in
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this really nice lunar finish lunar is
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Schramm's signature color for GX you can
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kind of see that we've got this lunar
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finish on the alloy 3052 tooth there as
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well and on the cage as well the shifter
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also has this really nice kind of
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RoboCup looking lunar finish the g8
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carbon cranks weigh 555 grams without a
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bottom bracket they've got a really nice
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layup and really nice smooth finish on
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here we've got this clear film here to
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protect it from wearing and as you can
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see they still look pretty good even
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after I think it's two or three weeks of
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riding they use dub technology for the
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bottom bracket and a Derrick mount the X
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sync to chain ring and this also has
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that new lunar finish on there and
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overall that is a very good-looking
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chain set and it's not something that we
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would expect to see from Schramm's GX
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drivetrain so I've got a question
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what's the granny gear how many teeth
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it's 52 52 tooth biggest gear on here on
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the cassette so we've moved from 50 to
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52 so you've got this steel spread and
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then an alloy 50 tooth
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okay so back to the X Inc chain ring
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really good chain ring for a check for
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chain retention very difficult to drop a
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chain off that and also obviously you
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have the clutch on the rear mech there
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which helps it keep everything on - and
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also the clip the Rimac retains the cage
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lock there so it's easy to take the old
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rear wheel out now the shifter has also
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been updated somewhat let me turn this
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light on and you can see that we've got
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an hour
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lever now this is an alloy lever instead
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of plastic it also has that nice lunar
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finish in the UK this cost 37 pounds
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some people have been asking will this
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work with the older GX Eagle I've not
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tried it I don't see why this wouldn't
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work I think the only changes are this
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alloy lever which just feel way nicer
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than the plastic one and the lunar
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finish those are 37 pounds on their own
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there's two versions of the shifter
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there's this which is for you know
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standard mountain bikes and that allows
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for multiple shifts up and there's also
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an EMT V version which allows for one
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shift at a time the cranks the chainset
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the carbon one is 555 grams and I think
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it's 240 pounds there's also an alloy
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one which is a hundred and thirty-eight
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matte yes xo1 and xx1 have been updated
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to work - sorry xx 1 XO 1 G X are all
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five hundred and twenty percent range
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now if you have access you can use this
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cassette on the old axis rear derailleur
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you don't need a new rear derailleur if
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you've got X X 1x 0 1 or GX
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you need the rear derailleur and the
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cassette it's only access that will
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allow this cassette to work with the
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with the current derailleur and no
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there's no mention of GX axis yet and
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that's kind of what I was looking
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forward to I was hoping that this would
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be G x-axis but I suppose it's too early
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and overall it's a really nice upgrade
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over the previous GX anyway so the GX
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drivetrain has always been a really nice
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workhorse group set but now it looks
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good I mean look at that chain right
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that chain set this looks amazing
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I think it looks really good and the new
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lunar finish looks really really smart
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so price is sorry 240 pounds for this
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one I believe the alloy one is 138
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pounds the rear derailleur is a hundred
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and ten the cassette is 196 but if you
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bought a whole group set its 495 pounds
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in the UK other changes too
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let me turn this around so you can see
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me so other changes that SRAM has
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announced today our XO 1 and X x1 are
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also going 520 percent we've got details
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and pricing of that overall single track
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world now so you can check that out you
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can also head over to single track world
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come now to see my first ride
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impressions first ride review
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of the group set now bear in mind is
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based on two or three weeks of riding so
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I do need to come back and tell you how
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this is still lasting after a few months
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so any questions about where I won't be
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able to answer yet because I've simply
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not put enough time on it but one thing
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I can tell you is I have bashed the rear
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mech I've got a couple of scrapes here
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and it hasn't affected shifting so far
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and the cassette construction is the
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same as the previous one so steel at
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Alli and the previous five hundred
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percent cassette that lasted quite well
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so I have no worries about this one -
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other changes to EXO 1 and X x1 and GX
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is that there are new colors so if you
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wanted to you could run GX with a higher
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end gold rainbow or copper cassette and
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a matching chain as well so you've got
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some color options there - but obviously
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those prices are way higher and that's
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it I think that's it so that's SRAM GX
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520 % 52 tooth really nice bailout gear
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for climbing so crank length Alex
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crank length for me let me show you the
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carbon cranks come in two lengths
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there's a hundred and seventy and 175
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the alloy cranks come in three there's
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165 170 and 175 however in the
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presentation we were told that the
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carbon cranks would come in 165 - in the
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documents it doesn't mention that so
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I'll need to double check with SRAM to
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see if that was just a mistake or what's
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gonna happen if there's gonna be a new
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shorter crank in the future - and that's
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it that's all for now if you've got any
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more questions please feel free to add
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them in the comments below
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I'll keep popping back to this for a
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video over the next few hours and days
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and answer any questions that I've
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missed so yeah cheers and see you all
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soon bye bye
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