Dammit’s adventures in mountain biking

Three different shades of yellow huh

Only the brave.

I can't take a photograph of the Magura stuff to save my life, always blows out.

See?

AXTR is working well.

Boing.

Rich vein of comedy that they have admittedly been, these brakes are excellent.

Having a single hose to thread through the frame rather than two hoses and a cable made the rebuild much, much more straightforward.

I've only given it the carpark bounce test so far, but it feels good. Very keen to ride some trails that I am familiar with to both see what it's like and to dial in the rebound and compression.

Being old, a Pace has to have Renthal bars and Magura brakes.

Looks great

Bet you can't wait for the wifi brakes, although they'll be Sram and not yellow

I think that the way AXS cleans up a mountain bike is very aesthetically pleasing- they can look very busy with cables and hoses curling every which way, having one hose to the fork and one to the frame is much more elegant.

I was mildly disappointed I couldn’t get hold of an axs dropper post for this reason.

Wireless remote or cable free droppers are the best. Sorry James.

Don't magura do a wireless dropper, more matchy matchy?

They do, but the AXS one is better.

Is the Magura even more of a pain to service than a Reverb?

Dunno. But there is too much lag between button press and activation.

Really should retrieve it and the FS bike it's attached to from my parents' garage.

Yeah, all the reviews of the Magura dropper say it's not great from a user experience perspective, plus the remote is a big lump of plastic that wouldn't integrate as neatly as (I think) the two AXS remotes do.

Found an AXS battery nestling on side of a trail last week, looked like it had been there a while. Guess it was from a front mech or seatpost as rear mech they'd probably notice it was not there pretty quickly and gone hunting for it.

Remember the early days of Di2 (had DA10) and everyone absolutely freaking out that my battery might run out and I'd be stuck in some crazy gear. Never happened, would even still head out when battery indicator was telling me 'ffs recharge me' and make a regular sunday ride no bother (Sometimes shifted real real slow at the front though). Newer DA11 + Ult11 IIRC have bigger capacity batteries and more efficient on them.
Would 100% go electric shift/wireless on a road bike again, but on a MTB, just can't justify a £3-500 rear mech, I smash into stuff way too often, rear mechs, levers and shifters are at constant risk with me lol.

Range anxiety mitigation

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I highly recommend swapping the pins on the Vaults for these DMR Moto-X pins.

They're extremely good, a notable improvement over the stock pins...