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SRAM CX1 Just Rebuilt Meredith Miller’s Back Deck

Written by Cory Benson
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SRAM’s sponsored cyclocross pros have a lot to say about how CX1 changed their lives in this fun PSA that goes from amusing to nuts pretty quick. Friends don’t let friends ride janky component mixes that just don’t work. We gave our first impressions on CX1 a couple months back, and can attest to it being a well-put together complete system that Tyler still is happily riding on his Moots cross bike.

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Cory Benson is the EU Tech Editor of Bikerumor.com.

Cory has been writing about mountain bikes, enduro, cyclocross, all-road, gravel bikes & bikepacking for over 25 years, even before the industry created some of these names. Prior to Bikerumor, Cory was a practicing Architect specializing in environmental sustainability, has designed bike shops & bike components, and worked as a bike shop mechanic.

Based in the Czech Republic for 15+ years, he is a technical mountain biker, adventurous gravel rider, and short & medium-haul bikepacker. Cory travels extensively across Europe riding bikes, meeting with key European product developers, industry experts & tastemakers for an in-depth review of what’s new, and what’s coming next.

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Patrick
Patrick
9 years ago

“Single ring setups cobbled together from garage sale parts.”

Is that any way for SRAM to talk about their road shifters and Type 2 rear derailleurs?

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CDG
CDG
9 years ago

Ha! Awesome!

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mattlikespizza
mattlikespizza
9 years ago

I also met CX-1 on tinder… (hilarious)

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ifbikes
ifbikes
9 years ago

that was so forced, er, fake.

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CX Hotdog
CX Hotdog
9 years ago

My double BBG basguard setup is lighter and cheaper than CX1, and has never dropped a chain! I have slapped a chainstay though.

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Turbo
Turbo
9 years ago

Cobbled together SRAM garage sale parts.

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Yancey
Yancey
9 years ago

Does anyone know where to get the 162.5mm or 165mm length cranks as listed on the SRAM website? The retailers only seem to carry 170 and up.

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wako29
wako29
9 years ago

I simply do not like SRAM drivetrains.
But that was FRICKEN awesome!!!!!

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Sebastien
Sebastien
9 years ago

That was a waste of time.

Lots of personality, no content.

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Andy
Andy
9 years ago

thanks for the heads up, Andy. billybob’s offending comment has been moderated away! -editor

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Thesteve4761
Thesteve4761
9 years ago

Haven’t watched it. But now I will. Only to guess who Billybob meant!

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Thesteve4761@yahoo.com
Thesteve4761@yahoo.com
9 years ago

D*mn. Watched it twice. Two choices left for who Billybob meant…..

Separately, my x.7 clutch derailleur and race face narrow wide ring worked great this season!

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JeroenK
JeroenK
9 years ago

Yup, X9 clutch derailleur and wolftooth narrow /wide ring here. Works great and saved my wallet ;-). If you allready have SRAM shifters, that’s the way to go if you do not want to buy an entire new groupset.

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davidT
davidT
9 years ago

Hilarious… Stop, Stop, Stop, Stop… the one thing you probably WON’T be able to do with CX1…

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MarkV
MarkV
9 years ago

I love the idea of an American Bicycle Component Co. but just can’t buy into SRAM’s vision and marketing. Removing products you can’t master is not innovation. You know when RED CX Electro comes, front derailleurs will be the “Belle of the Ball”!

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Tara
Tara
9 years ago

MarkV… Removing the front derailleur has nothing to do with them not knowing how to make a FD. You obviously don’t ride mountain bikes (there for not on a single ring setup) because if you did, you would understand that single ring setups are awesome (as long as you have the gear range required). Front derailleurs are going the way of the dodo bird–Shimano will follow suit once they get it all figured out.

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Pistolero
Pistolero
9 years ago

I like the video. Problem here is that Sram is not a video or filming company (or maybethey are?), they sell drivetrain components, very innovative, but also a few times less reliable and more expensive than the japanese, therefore…

On a second thought, maybe sram is like specialized; a marketing company that happens to do bicycles, it’s a marketing company… I like this marketing, I won’t buy their components until they lower prices, make road derailleurs that can be used, brakes that actually brake better than the cheapest crap from ebay asia, etc…

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satisFACTORYrider
satisFACTORYrider
9 years ago

That makes 2 real stupid things I saw today

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Tom V.
Tom V.
9 years ago

If so many of you don’t like SRAM, why do you watch this video. I loved it. It has no real content, that is true, but as a joke I find it super. And by the way, I also love the simplicity, beauty and reliability of my SRAM XO 1 mountain bike setup. But that is just my opinion.

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Pasabaporaquí
Pasabaporaquí
9 years ago

@Tara, I ride MTB, in very rough terrain, and I think that single rings can only be the answer in very few scenarios.
Of course it can be enough, but at least a double setup will be better, being MTBs, at least XC MTBs some of the most versatile bicycles out there, capping them by running less gearing is getting half of the potential they can have.
My next setup will surely be 2x, but currently I have 3x, and use the 24, 32, and 42 rings, as terrain goes from ridiculously steep climbs, short flats, and tech descents or fast ones through dirtroads, and all in the same route, so I would miss my gears very badly with a single ring.
Pretend that single chainrings is the best option no matter the rider, no matter the ride, or the course is quite a bold statement.

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germanflea
germanflea
9 years ago

too expensive for what you get, a new ultegra group is cheaper and nicer

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erikv
erikv
9 years ago

I can’t help but feel like I just got ripped on by SRAM for using SRAM components on my CX bike.

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