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WheelTop EDS TX Full Wireless Groupset (Chinese SRAM)
toxin:
What an awful ospw
kbernstein:
There's a lot to cover. Why are they advertising "1x13", what does this imply? Are they making a "full" groupset with cassette discs and cranks? Are they locking us into 13 speed now?
The crankset looks like the senicx PR4 but it's not, the back of the cranks is different. Calipers are not the zrace ones and I don't recognize the rotors. The pic is blurry but it looks like the levers are exactly the same
Tijoe:
I've been using the TX on my gravel bike for about 500 miles. The biggest problem I am encountering is with the right hand shifter paddles/buttons. Proportionately the paddles are too small to shift easily on rough climbs and descents. When you are trying to shift on rough gravel, it is often difficult to locate your fingers and push/click on the buttons without having your fingers hit both paddles at the same time, or the wrong one. On a really rough forest road I descended yesterday, too many times, I was not able to push the narrower up-shift paddle, and my fingers would downshift instead.
If their new gravel group uses the same brake lever/paddles, then to me, there is not much improvement by only updating the rear derailleur and calling it a Gravel Group. To date, my TX group works fine on my gravel bike.
Tijoe:
--- Quote from: kbernstein on May 17, 2024, 08:56:44 AM ---There's a lot to cover. Why are they advertising "1x13", what does this imply? Are they making a "full" groupset with cassette discs and cranks? Are they locking us into 13 speed now?
The crankset looks like the senicx PR4 but it's not, the back of the cranks is different. Calipers are not the zrace ones and I don't recognize the rotors. The pic is blurry but it looks like the levers are exactly the same
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I presume they are advertising "1X13" because it is one more gear than Scumano and SRAM sell on their main product lines. If my memories are current, Campy is the only one selling 13 cog cassettes. If you look at the majority of the "Twitter's" complete bicycles sold on Aliexpress, the majority of them are listed with Wheeltop EDS in either 1X13 2X13. I am sure the product is still configurable for 7 to 13 speeds. If they are putting a complete kit together to sell to OEM builders, then you might as well go with 13 speeds.
toxin:
The cranks are their own and they do make an mtb cassete. They also sell some stuff to decathlon
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