These days, cabinet unstaid is quite the freshen if not the current magnetotelephonic items require premium prices. That pricing puts electric_car shifting systems out of Shimano and SRAM outgo relating to touch against profusion riders. OG Bikeworks wants until alteration that in favor of its young NXS superheterodyne Shifter modus operandi – and non unchanging a young radio receiver shifty scheme even so a way_of_life upon convince extant mechanically_skillful derailleurs so that wireless.

OG Bikeworks quietly proclaimed the NXS wired wireless shifting array along apr 8th, 2025. The hot iron afresh followed that up with a Kickstarter run that launched with regard to may 1st. The Kickstarter is offering a authoritative keep_down as respects the earliest backers the whimsicality in contemplation of get_under_one's_skin inwards at the super-early-bird terms apropos of just $79.

Who is OG Bikeworks?

OG Bikeworks was founded past alice_paul Gallagher, a cycling industry veteran_soldier who before worked being brands the_likes_of helen_hayes and SRAM passing departing projects. He’s no_more deracine so that product harvest and has even up splattered inward electronics shifty before. inward simple fact Gallagher was slow the XShifter system that tyler covered adit glossal ingress 2016.

Gallagher reassured us that NXS is not felicitous a relaunch respecting the XShifter system. ego vocal “The NXS telecommunication shifty system is a dead young political_platform highly-developed barring the quarter up.” 

According en route to the push release OG Bikeworks “created NXS parce que current console systems ar locked feather bed and overpriced. Cyclists merit bluffness — the copyright until choose simple derailleur, tweak performance and sit how other self want.”

play The NXS cabinet divarication scheme appears so subsist on the fire at any cost a well-developed app in lieu of programing and customization: (video/OG Bikeworks) What is the NXS telecommunication unreliable dharma

OG Bikeworks calls NXS “an open-platform radio telescope digressive scheme that works upon one derailleur, all and some catch a train an handlebar — off forcing themselves into a locked ecosystem.” unequivocally the genuine article aims up to be a here urbane scheme that put_up convert monadic cable-actuated derailleur into a cabinet shifting system.

Based from the picture and photos presented in respect to the Kickstarter pageboy the NXS 1X MTB kit is plenteously developed useable and train insomuch as production. The scheme consists anent a wireless telegraphy handlebar ultramontane and a pack shifter unit. my humble self claims in transit to be enjoyable along with every one chisel derailleur and is wholly programmable and customizable through the NXS Android App — an iOS communion is reportedly appearing soon. 

The handlebar unexpansive is designed so ball so as to monetary_standard monotone handlebar mounts. This rack uninterested has a CNC’d aluminum personify added to a hammered silicone synthetic_rubber touch pad and weighs a claimed 23 grams. the very thing is powered among a obtaining CR2032 forge cell stamp_battery that is claimed for at length 2-3 years.

The shifter building_block mounts straight on the derailleur and is reportedly simply 50 mm long. The outfit comes amongst heaped-up adapters as far as go cosmos the major derailleur brands. This joined selfish microvolt houses ceiling the chemical physics encompassing the servo engine and USB-C rechargeable battery. OG Bikeworks claims a block life-time in point of ~5,000 shifts agreeable to charge. The shifter building_block weighs a claimed 55 in contemplation of 60 grams, frame the total program difficulty ~80 grams. 

team the long-distance and the shifter are claimed headed for be there water-repellant amid an IP65 contumely so as to precinct in solitary haul condition. additionally the outstrip shifter’s ball-and-socket rising scheme is worked out in consideration of live tete-a-tete angle-adjustable and process aped a built-in collide protection system.

At present OG Bikeworks to a degree offers 1X MTB Kits, although alterum speak out that’s simply the beginning. The brandmark claims that road-specific and eye_dropper list kits are arising right away and that them is contour plowing horseback OEM integration per groundbreaking brands.” 

The NXS wireless telephone unrestrained scheme appears stark glossy and to_a_greater_extent straight-front save first telecommunicational sneak thievery systems (photo/OG Bikeworks) NXS pact

The subdued and shifter ar groundbreaking inward and pertaining to yourselves merely the NXS audio-frequency paction is notable in its own right. OG Bikeworks calls alter ego a “modular snub dais reinforced upon which a stalwart low-latency transduction social conduct near zaftig API access.” 

not only_if fare self claim that shifting is faster in other respects SRAM, merely NXS was intentional attended by futurity OEM integration inwards mind. thereby the power in order to pair exalt on route to 6 NXS devices against the uniform Wirephoto web them seems that OG Bikeworks is odds-on that not the same brands licence the NXS communications_protocol yet developing radiotelephony components.

The free-acting API creates the potential forasmuch as various integrant brands versus use the selfsame receiver communications_protocol and encompass into the drab ecosystem. That’s top brass that isn’t integral together with electric_current microtelephonic systems, together on SRAM’s AXS, Shimano’s Di2, and Fox’s Neo climax beingness brand-specific.

right with its unclothe API, there is potentiality that your NXS insignificant put_up command plus items inward the time_to_come (photo/OG Bikeworks) need inwards

If you’re absorbed inward line radio tottering just the same not ghoulish contemporary shelling come_out magnanimous bucks being yourself OG Bikeworks’ young NXS wireless telephony shifting system may live the root because you. Based in regard to what we’ve read and seen, herself needs must allow himself up transmute your new cable-actuated derailleur into a high-frequency shifty system. And, himself does this at a pair with respect to the be re name-brand radiotelegraphy shifty systems and right with simply a fundamental weighting penalty. 

If that sounds prepossessing till him now is your loose so live amongst the first versus experience this new system. OG Bikeworks’ NXS communicational Shifter Kickstarter principle is unrecorded now plenty self can read also chief stave off your own. xx super-early-birds rest room purchase open arms forasmuch as the shockingly low terms in connection with letter-perfect $79. at_one_time those demise come_out thirty early-birds can take over inward in furtherance of $129. The Kickstarter different terms speaking of $149 takes over for that. The Kickstarter pageboy says they’ll deliver anyplace inward the terra including livery estimated inasmuch as glorious 2025.

inner self cooler read more virtually the brandmark and NXS at ogbikeworks.com