Lot of money to poddle around town, no?
As much as I'd love wireless, I'll wait for shimano to have a stab. Plus the amount of mechs I've written off, I'm not sure I can handle replacing a £300 mech! Ha
Not just town to be fair, over here we have two valleys with dense amount of trails, ups and downs so does get a lot of ride time around there as of recent times since being discovered. More being discovered as we ride further out toward the outskirts too through various farmland etc.
The AXS isn't something I intend to get right away, maybe later in the year for sure and I'll be making use of Rogate bike park in the summer too so that will be a full test of the NX I have now.
Shimano seem to have been very quiet in the wireless mech front and SRAM are a couple of generations down in terms of maturity and the trickle down effect is seen in the GX. I do wonder if they will release an SX or NX AXS as well at the £350 range for an upgrade kit. Probably a year or two until they emerge.
Give me a shout if you're selling
For the NX? As above it won't be any time soon but I def will upgrade at some point. I need to change forks first and today have found out my frame will take tapered head tube forks but comes with straight so am looking at options and maybe ordering something tonight if there is stock.
£550 seems steep for what benefit you'll get after the first few rides of oh this is cool.
I'd argue a better fork or brakes would be a better upgrade.
I think the price is excellent for what you are getting, it's still high yeah for sure but you are getting near 1:1 performance and robustness without paying the £1000+ the XX1 and X01 kit comes in at, plus getting the battery cage which is a £15-£20 option with the others.
Fork is definitely what I need to upgrade first. Last weekend's ride through terrain that was 100% all dried mud with fork smashing dips all over showed me that the Suntour XCM just isn't up to the task. I have found
Rockshox Judy Gold for £199 so unless I can find a better option somewhere else looks like I will be ordering that shortly. I rode my mate's Norco with the 2018 version of the same fork today and noted just how lightweight his front end was and how smooth the fork travel and rebound was so I def know this is the fork for me. He had the exact same Suntour before upgrading his forks too.
Very happy with these Tektro brakes though. Have no problem with their stopping power on the Nukeproof pads, plenty of bite and feedback going downhill. Unless they fail then I am unlikely to change brakes anytime soon.
