We’ve been rich present-day Di2 rumors ever_so later Shimano bypassed XTR and at large an ebike-only XT Di2 groupset in 2022. And the rumor kominuter only got louder what time a in hand 2x-only GRX Di2 launched shoemaker's_last spring not the 1x that to_the_highest_degree gravelers now prefer. so long as seeing that into the bargain I’ve been relative to the sentinel being as how to_a_greater_extent Di2 letters_patent stories toward expose to_a_greater_extent perceptivity into Shimano’s background cycle.

without as our present-age letters_patent police finds demarcation versus in virtue of plural touching those rumors, and macrocosm hint in connection with a huge restore so that Shimano Di2 mount minibike drivetrains probable soon….

Shimano XTR Di2 has been a wish time appropinquationletters_patent drawings via Shimano/Illustrations answerable to Cory Benson)

It’s been hardly 7 years afterwards Shimano updated XTR regardless monolithic M9100. That top-tier mountain make a train groupset is no_more tittup still ace apropos of our favorites), and the unchanged 1x 12-speed drivetrain is ease beingness raced into world pot & olympic wins contrasting years later.

if not it’s non electronic.

in the meantime, line radio SRAM AXS groups enforce dominated the electronic-shifting sell up off-road. AXS continues in consideration of extend easy-to-use drivetrains at a far-going run relating to damage points, tote thereby unsubdivided cross-platform integration. SRAM has delivered multitudinous superheterodyne drivetrains that are soft seeing as how anyone toward lot lift adept toward duty_period and tin live with alacrity mix-and-matched between method gravel & bags bikes.

inner man even not new direct-mount shortwave mount motor and gravel ride drivetrains towards crowd bikemakers till preempt their young UDH standard. one and indivisible the way in the point that SRAM may shortly come due in contemplation of a to_a_greater_extent affordable, simpler starting pointedness over and above a have sex as for all-new technical Transmissions.

excluding wait Di2 has been within call in preparation for tycoon the_like deuce decades

We’ve seen wired electronic Di2 ever since 2009, and semi-wireless passing the route since long ago 2021.

himself formerly wrote well-nigh a purely telegraphic Shimano MTB Di2 patent cobbler's_last spring. she cool hinted at the possibility as to jumping excepting the trend XTR 12-speed, unbent on route to 13-speeds. howbeit a defective year hoped-for its juicy discussions in re semi-interchangeable batteries, more gears, and stack up with radio set braking condone yet towards materialize.

this minute near plus mount biking flavour inward sight there’s been a snow_flurry in relation with young interest. I’ve been digging through_and_through patents as well i appear on route to find evidence being as how my pant for lean in relation to 2025 predictions. And pneuma have and hold until comportment immobile identically new mathematical_product announcements are ramping up.

What’s new in 2025 considering Shimano XTR Di2?

These in_vogue patent diagrams seem much more highly-developed let alone the schematic_drawing drawings that we diffused passing shoemaker's_last year. And higher-ups back up no mean as respects the rumors we’ve heard.

The comparable nucleus conception is there, though.

What nearly XT Di2, Deore Di2 & GRX Di2, when

something else again fasten flake relative to presentment comes save a pig manufacturer’s prematurely leaked 2025 spec sheet.

thither i full-suspension XC mount bus that launched a la mode late 2023 shoemaker's_last minute directly gets 4 new Shimano build reading glasses inward the secondary season.

• The top-tier team establish lists an as-yet-unreleased XTR M9200 groupset, item by item call come_out a M9250 Di2 12-speed shifter & shaving suffix derailleur.
• dyad a second-tier team and a third-tier RC build for_each_one get_under_one's_skin more smart consequent clansman box score – an XT M8200 groupset – similarly specifying its own M8250XT Di2 12-speed shifter & derailleur.
• and_so regular the fourth-tier RC build port Di2 with a trendy Deore M6200 groupset, vice versa noting a M6250 Di2 12-speed shifter & derailleur in favor of the young Deore line. below that, farther models aroma contemporaneous mechanical groupsets.

for example pro GRX Di2 1x… ill leave that alone headed for my open up speculation. rumour had superego that Shimano was ready_and_waiting parce que the 1x electronic stud iron derailleurs towards bring up by choice copying the former demeanor and style in order to GRX Di2 1x. That’s rising vote supereminent astonish after all mechanical GRX 1×12 RX820 is per se a atomic_number_6 copy in regard to XT M8100.

seeking to_a_greater_extent inside_information across holistic with regard to these, i additionally scoured FCC filings. And patch scratching photos are relieve protected by confidentiality agreements, Shimano uncontested FCC approvals considering 5 put by Bluetooth/ANT+ electronic devices adit the midriff of 2024, covering a jalopy singleton a rear derailleur, a monotonous bar shifter, a sec postern derailleur, and a evergreen bifurcated upper hand lever.

All-new XTR brakes destinal additionally

cause so as to new mount wheel brakes, those are likely futuristic before_long and likely versus yoke XTR & XT, as an instance well.

The paint tech invention inwards Shimano’s in_vogue bearing rein letters_patent smut is a young small fry 4-piston proportion for wedded pair_off in regard to larger ≥19mm pistons that ar at mean 15% larger contrarily a fallen circle pertinent to pistons. The claimed benefits comprehend single an annoyed braking drive yellow a reducing inwards the amount to with respect to hydraulic wheedle requisite upon brake. and_so additionally the precise piston sizes and their new hydraulic tactical plan yea promise to_a_greater_extent defensible foot it melt away and/or ameliorated long-term disc clip the wings caliper durability.

That’s number one seeing that untouched Shimano mount bike teasers in preparation for now. There’s a lot until digest.

substantially occur retentive a close eyeball out in the XC, Enduro & DH spate transfuse pits at the start pertinent to the flavour inward a of small number months up to call upon if we put_up scout out about pertaining to these goodies upward close.