#Eagle transmission full#

A simple little ‘tap’ while unscrewing the cage will loosen it up. You can remove the cage without using any tool. If you do damage a part, it will most probably be replaceable. The good news is that the rest of the derailleurs are rebuildable. In the case of this new system, well, I'd be very surprised if you were able to bend the clevis.

#Eagle transmission full#

In that case, on a normal hanger mech situation, both of them would probably be a full write-off and due for the bin. Now, I imagine you're thinking ‘that's all well and good, but what happens if I crash and absolutely smash it into a rock and manage to bend it?’. There are two different modes to set the cage to, depending on the chainstay length, along with many other little things which have been optimised to create an overall better product. It helps keep the pulley chain interface better aligned when at the extreme ends of the cassette. It looked like it had been bent on the trail but in actual fact, it was supposed to be like that. There are so many little things they have done that all add up and just make it a joy to use - such as the slight bend in the derailleur cage. The clevis mount gave the ability to produce a far superior product and gave the engineers more ability to optimise every last bit. The way to do this was to redesign the whole system and imagine a new way of doing things. Chris Mandell (SRAM PR) told us that they looked at all the warranty data they had collected over the last 10 years and tried to eliminate as many of the issues as they could. The smart engineers at SRAM Germany really went to town on this, and have gone over everything with a fine-toothed comb. I had my doubts about it until Chris showed us - it was super impressive. That's not possible on a normal hanger set-up - something will bend. When you induce the hub, frame and axle it creates an interface that is incredibly stiff and really strong, so much so that you can put your bike on the ground, stand on the derailleur on one foot then get back on your bike, ride away and the shifting will still be perfect. It's not just held by a single bolt to the hanger instead, it mounts both sides of the frame. By making this change, you massively increase the stiffness and strength of the derailleur. The hanger is replaced by a direct mount clevis on the frame. This new AXS system builds on top of that. It was a really good move forward for the bike industry. It was a standard that made sense and, slowly, more and more bike brands have been getting on board with the standard. The purpose of it was to create a better derailleur hanger, that other bike brands could adopt. A couple of years ago, SRAM brought out the UDH (universe derailleur hanger).