gary p wrote:
Slowman wrote:
the one area where they are interested in backward compatibility is for your past investments in wheels. but it'll only go back so far, and that distance back is limited to hubs that accept XD drivers. it took pains to ensure that all the wheel companies has a lot of notice, and that its new driver fit on old XD driver-enabled hubs.The only thing that necessitates the XD-R driver is the 10T cog. And this system would work fine, especially in 1x configuration, without a 10T cog, just as the gravel 1x11 works fine with either the XD driver and a 10-42 cassette or the old-school HG driver and an 11-42 cassette, and 12-speed Eagle works fine with an XD driver and a 10-50 cassette or 11-50 cassette on an HG driver.
It's early, and I'm not gonna criticize SRAM for not having a HG-compatible cassette for this yet. Maybe it comes when the presumed downmarket 1x12 mechanical systems are released in the future, just as it took Apex1 and NX Eagle to usher in the HG compatible cassettes for those systems. If SRAM doesn't go there, somebody in the aftermarket will. I all but guarantee that the folks at Sunrace are already working on a SRAM 12s Road compatible cassette that will fit an HG driver.
If sunrace comes out with a 12s cassette compatible with an 8-9-10 HG cassette body, then I'd be very interested. I still love my tri-spokes, no desire to swap those out anytime soon, but they aren't XD compatible.
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