Extend the new XT Cassette with a Garbaruk Xtender ST

Cool stuff and certainly serves a purpose. That 32-38-45 are some huge jumps. Maybe one day I’ll need 45t. I hope no time soon

If you ever do wear out that upper assembly, you can keep the aluminum carrier and have a sweet ninja star!

I’ll wait for the 9-50 version.

This is what I hate most about garage enterprises. Whatever the market does, sell the consumer some stuff to make them feel like their making their stuff better. Charge triple normal prices.

Chris L, maybe the pinion gearbox or something similar is the future? The weight isn’t too terrible and its still relatively new so I’m expecting that to improve too
I don’t see internal hubs being commonplace for decades or ever, far too heavy and you can’t shift under load with nearly any of them.

Has anyone ever made a cassette that has a micro-wide range, say a 3 tooth small sprocket up to a 17? Then combined with a 5 tooth front chainring that would give a big range. It would be so light.

I give it a few more years till folks realize that going back to a 26″ wheel will archive those sweet low gears the industry is looking for

The day I need a 45t is the day I buy an E-MTB

After racing a 32t/11-42t set-up all year, I don’t see how people need a 10t cog. Going from 10s (what I ride) to 11s in 11-42t eliminates my only gripe; the occasional big jump in gear ratios. I recognize if you reduce your chainwheel tooth count enough, you’ll lose your top end, but then as Ant points out, ‘maybe 1x isn’t right for you’!

1x is fine for racing in the Appalachians. If I were riding a heavier bike, or at a more sedate pace, or on steeper grades, i’d get a double.

There will always be people who have to lift themselves up by putting others down.

I run 26/42 on 29er and I climb the steepest, most technical riding I can find in the east. This low gear is the same basic low we all used when we had triple cranks. Funny how we forgot to hate on ourselves when we all had those low ratios.

Sure, you probably could walk or run steep techy climbs faster. Walking is fun!

For those of us who like the challenge of riding, we’ll ride the steep stuff, while the ‘real men’ get off and walk.

Steel teeth on an alloy carrier? Count me in. I bet the 11 speed mechs from Shimano can handle that fine, Shimano are always very conservative on the usable range of their mechs. With that kind of range I could keep my King wheels and run a single 32t up front, no more 26t crawler gear needed for those hours long Alpine slogs… maybe.

@Don Two reasons not to go into single-digit cogs: Wear and vibration. Smaller rings and cogs wear out faster, and wear the chain out faster, because they transmit higher torque (and support the torque on fewer teeth). Second, the fever teeth, the more drivetrain vibration. On 11t the vibration is noticeable for me. I haven’t tried 10t but it should be about 10% worse, and from there on it will get progressively worse. The reason for the vibration is that cogs are not circular. A 10t cog is a 10-sided polygon, and the chain lifts up and falls down for each corner. The fewer corners, the more it has to lift and fall.

JNH-I ride a Shimano M9000 11spd rear mech with a 11-45 One-up and Absolute Black oval up front.
The stock rear der shifted pretty well stock. But I recently purchased a Lindarets/Wolftooth 11 link setup and it made it shift perfectly with less B tension.
This is the perfect setup. I tried 1x and realized that even though it limited my gearing selection it was better than 2x or 3x due to the LACK of need for a front shift ever.

It’s “Ukraine” not “The Ukraine”. It’s no longer a region of the USSR.
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My experience whit Garbaruk parts is very positive.
Props to their work!
Garage enterprises….. LOL!