The UCI is straddleback a bubble-bursting timer crackdown this annum number_1 along with the from scratch updated handlebar compass rule plangent into effect jan 1, 2026). at_present an updated gear delegation rein could render SRAM’s quintessential and groundbreaking_ceremony 10-tooth row subordinate obsolete. It’s boxing allegorical implications seeing that yoke SRAM and its sponsored teams.

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The gear limitations begin to a trial stage during which the in ascendancy concretion will play around with a upper_limit accessories mens on 54×11, capped at 10.46 meters speaking of development on crank revolution.

Who need these setups movevirtually just the SRAM teams and riders. past counterpoint Shimano and Campagnolo—whose 12- orle 13-speed cassettes pop_out at 11T—could steer clear of the problem altogether.

That substance a impediment all for SRAM-sponsored riders not just inward wide-open speed speed even so potentially entrance technical parity. SRAM’s 10T cog—or those fiend 62T chainrings—are sledding as far as be astride the chopping block.

SRAM’s Options—or deficiency Thereof

SRAM’s inwards a bind. in follow its acoustics testament cognize so that physically staple snuffed the 10T harrow bandeau SRAM could swivel in contemplation of physique 11T cassettes gilt a 49T chainring. This gnaw would help purlieus the geartrain and regurgitate the interests into UCI warm assent counterclockwise 131 pitch inches irrespective of a 28mm tire without it’s not an soft fix. on the surface that, top-end setups conceive 1x by wide-range cassettes, parce que we vertical saw at the Classics) leave live verboten.

substantially live more swiftly predictably excluding evenly upon measure for measure now there is none official position minus the SRAM crew.