SRAM's GX Eagle AXS: Wireless Drivetrain For Less | First Look 

Everyone knew that it would come out some day

Now its Shimano's turn to try wireless out

I'm holding out for the think-tap. It's a headband you wear and all you have to do is think about what gear you want to be in and it shifts in to it.

Fantastic. After 1,5 years of riding the AXS XX1, I want to put in on my second bike. The adventure with GX in the electronic version will be great fun

I suck at adjusting derraileurs, so I find it interesting. I would get one if my next bike had the option of a groupset like that.

Pretty stoked on this, I'll start running an electronic setup once the price comes down just a bit more.

I don’t know if I’m ready for the wireless yet. I might wait a few more years to see if the price point can come down. Also if they can make the battery smaller that’d be a big plus.

600 bucks is still a decent amount of money...do i want one ? For sure, in due time !

Now we need a wireless NX drivechain! 🤣🤣🤣

As for weight difference add in the cable and cable housing.

Oh yeah I like the way this is trickling down to a more affordable set up. I think its the way forward. 20hrs run time is good, and will more than likely only get better👍

Hot take: There won't be any lower cost complete bikes with this, it'll simply go on what used to come with X01.

It's cool and a really slick piece of engineering. I give SRAM credit for that. But when I get out on my bike, I don't really have a desire to be fiddling with apps, or charging batteries to make sure I can shift. I just want to--you know--ride my bike. I can see the appeal for some people, but this is not for me. Especially at this price point.

Last year 2020 I purchased my Scott genius 900 tuned axs. I love my bike. However I hate my sram axs xo1. Reasons 1 if you happen to bump the shifter at an inopportune time it will shift up or down sometimes multiple gears then when you power down it will grind into whatever gear it chose. 2 sram doesn't have as much spring tension on the derailleur as shimano xt "which is what I've always run" on my old genius and spark, so when you smash thru a rock garden and take some jumps the chain slaps the upper triangle and chips the paint off!!! So you have to put some guard tape on the upper triangle... 3 it's hard for me to tell if it's my hub or because the spring tension is crap, sometimes and it's absolutely random I'll put the power down and it will skip and that majorly sucks! 4 in order to make sure I alleviated any chance of me just bumping the stupid electronic shifter "to make sure it wasn't operater error" I moved the shifter so far in on my handle bar it's actually hard to reach and not ergonomic at all. That's my complaint. I rode this bike for three months trying to like this, butt I can't give it a good review. I have my bike in the shop now I had them install the wire and xo1 shifter and derailleur. I wanted to go back to all shimano but the bike shop talked me out of it since I already had sram. I spent $8000 on my bike and I'm disappointed I don't want other people to make this same mistake and waste their hard earned money. Just to recap and be very clear, if you have something that works good now. STICK with it! This thing will not make you faster by any means. Save your money and upgrade your wheel and hub that will go much farther then this stupid electronic shifter. Lucas from Minnesota Sram take your overpriced junk and pound sand! That's me keeping it clean.

I'd take replacing a gear cable maybe twice a year over charging batteries weekly and connecting my shifter to the mech every ride regardless of the cost to be honest.

Lets see: Electronic shifters, seat post, rear shock, fork on an eMTB! The ultimate set-up Any chance you could do some EMF testing on all of this gear?

That "overload clutch feature" - have you ever pushed against a normal deraillure? That already has the same feature called a spring. If you push it in, it unloads the cable und springs back. The most limiting factor then ist the chain.

I like the mechanichal feel of a cable shifter

Been running AXS since it came out and wont put anything else on my bikes it works flawless, set it up one and never have to touch it again. Paired with the Reverb AXS and no more cable clutter.

You don't need that clutch for impact, when riding cable shifter, there is nothing holding it from going inwards, like there is on the battery version

looks great, and I'd love to have that! Though I don't know about the shifter, it doesn't look all that ergonomic, and I feel like I'd miss a shift quite easily. But I also haven't seen or touched one of those irl, so I don't know, I'd love to try one it.

Awesome! Now if Scott and Sram could join up and do an AXS TwinLock...

Best news: cheaper mullet drivetrain setups for gravel bikes to get that sweet 10-50t or 10-52t range in the back with curly bars in the front. Other than that, wireless is sweet but I'm not sure it's a life-changing upgrade. Nice to have but it's not gonna get you up or down the mountain any quicker.

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I have the original and it's been excellent.

Gonna get the AXS

Im bad at bike bilding/maintenance and the axs would be so eatmsy to set up but ill have to stick with my tride and true cable

Can't wait to see if wireless brake systems will come out.

I don't think I can mentally handle another battery to manage.

If it came on a bike I was going to buy cool, other than that, my cable shifter works great, maybe when the price drops to around $200.00 I would consider it

There's also wink- tap which will be the NX line. Left wink to shift up right wink to shift down

Here i am still riding single speed on my enduro bike!!!

I have a wireless Magura dropper post, shifting would be great. Sign me up!

At the rate that I seem to destroy derailleurs - I will stick with normal until wireless are most cost effective. Cool that they are bringing the price down though - it can only get better and cheaper in time.

Awesome! I’m still going to wait for the price to go down.

Cable actuated XTR is a beautiful thing, I'll stick with it.

The only thing that would hold me back from going electronic is the shifter itself. The short, soft throw doesn’t look pleasing to me. I like a nice mechanical ‘click’ and I like being able to upshift multiple gears based on how long the throw is. I believe there is a multiple-shift option via a long-press, but if SRAM focused on delivering a better tactile experience I would be very interested. As of right now, the lighter weight and 1/3 cost mechanical seems like a bargain.

I'm now waiting for the wireless brakes.

Hi, it depends on how often I drive. I have a period when I go out once a month and when I drive every day. And still think about whether I'm still charged with a derailleur, phone, watch, camera, power bank. :-) I won't be a fan yet, but it's nice!

Not super stoked on charging a derailleur every 20 hours, I'm liking my di2 on my road bike which I'm only charging 2 to maybe 3 times a year

I got axs ox1 and I love it. I can not see me going back to mechanical shifting in less I break my axs

thinking of just getting the shifter and derailleur top swap my current gx

Years with gritty contaminated cable housing and no issues but sure when I want to get fancy and bored I will move to electronic.

So an aluminum cage costs $200?

Time to go to the bike store

When comparing gx and gx axs did you consider cable and housing weight

Wonder if this will work with a Shimano cassette?

I wonder if this works with shimano 12 speed cassette

Really cool stuff. It will eventually become the norm!? 😎

Nice but the amount of times I rip these of on rocks the dollars would quickly build up big time.

a "clutch" would also be nice.

I'm waiting for Sram NX Eagle AXS 😁

Nowhere can I read if the derailleur can be powered from a shimano ep8 e-bike. And if the ebike works with the derailleur for smoother running when shifting.

Hoping for Shimano SLX and Deore 12 speed will have Di2 option..

I want one now

Good to see the price coming down, 600 is much more reasonable.

No weight penalty for cable and housing so which ones actually lighter?

All nice, but having to many stuff with batteries this days, from phone, bike, clock and now gears just makes life a bit more complicated. Having to think if you battery has juice and again using another app for a think that does little to improve anything is just not woth it. I use XTR/XT and it does the job.

Feel bad for Archer components now. Their market just got a bit smaller with this only being slightly pricier but comes with a deraiuller. They really need to finish their drop bar version

I love the idea of wireless shifting but still reluctant to commit to SRAM shifting. Not as reluctant as I am to their brakes but still in the nah department.

Already sold out everywhere I checked :(

Hey buddy how do you clean the axs system and what can you use to do so

That’s cool

Its good to see this tecnology getting cheaper, but its another reason to be sad for being Brazilian, GX AXS here costs 6700 reais 😂

2:41 WTF? He forgot to say "nice!"

If this integrated the AXS dropper post on one device, I would happily shell the $$$ out and get one. Then we just need a reliable hydraulic gyro, and route the front brake through the front tube/fork/stem.... then a wireless control for ebikes... then no more dealing with the cable tangle aftermath of a tiny crash .... I don't care much for GX vs X01 as far as the derailleur is concerned, but I went from a X01 (11s) to a GX (12s ) and the shifter feels plasticky, kind of cheap .... I feel no difference between my 3 bikes as far as shifting performance - XTR 12s, GX 12s and X01 11s..... but the X01 clicker just feels better than the other two. I wonder if the AXS GX derailleur would work with the X01 or XX1 wireless shifter at all. ps... I still have a bike with Hammerschmidt on it :O .. make those 12S and wireless and that will be the bomb.

Dope! Really excited to see this. Can you program the indexing like on the Archer system for if you wanted to run 10 or 11 speed / mix and match cassettes?

I was wondering when you would review this since I saw this on Reddit

Thanks for this Nice vidéo

Does it communicate to Garmin computers to know gear position?

Does the pulley cage have the same measurements as the mechanical GX derailleur(52t)? Would it be possible to swap over the aluminum cage from the mechanical version to this AXS version to save some weight and maybe minimize the chain slap with a less heavy cage?

does that work with shimano cassette and chain?

nice sharing

I'm from the tech sector. Why are we losing functionality for the sake of convenience? Why put batteries into something that doesn't need it. Cable shifters work just fine. "But they're complicated!, You have to run a cable from the front of the bike to the back of the bike" you're point? A cable linkage gives you a direct mechanical connection to the rear derailleur. This is leaving it all up to a wireless connection. After working with computers as long as I have I will take a direct mechanical connection all day!! The one nice thing about this coming out is it'll push the price of regular derailers down.

Does it never need to be tuned up? Or just tune itself and re align through app?

But why not for 11 speed ? What a miss, should be so simple in app to choose 11 or 12.

Is this more with xc bikes?

I can get a lot of tune ups for 425$ imma stick with cable for now

the great thing with this is more OEM bikes with AXS from the factory

i guess we will see this on complete bikes next year😜 maybe🙈

Is the cage still made of cheese as in the mechanical rear mech? Tall grass bent two of mine...

Is it waterproof?.

Is compatible with 11s?

This says 6 and 21 speeds. Which is it?

Does anyone else have the clutch disengage when landing heavy or casing jumps. Seems super dangerous as if you land heavy then have to put some cranks in immediately they just spin with nothing there. Should it overload on jump landing ?

What if wireless breaking?

Never tried it. Might be worth it for me if Derailer does realign itself after an impact.

I just want Sram that can shift under load. Only reason that shimano is better in my opinion

Is electronic shifting solving a problem that doesn’t exist? Modern ‘mechanicals’ are excellent, fast, few hassles, no charging, no battery waste, won’t leave you stranded.

But is it I.P. Freely certified?

IP69. Nice.

I like it, but I don’t want to charge more things, and I don’t care to spend that much on a group set. If it came on my oem bike I’d probably swap it out weight savings and save some cash on the new bike

Does Kaz do Jujistu?

Hell I want one

love it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So. I can get fancy shifting for all my bikes for a mere 600?! Seems like a deal to me!

How much is that in deore?

Cool, but not jumping on the wave til prices drop. You're talking about $10-15 in manufacturing costs with a monster premium. Love the de-cluttering on the cockpit, but principle alone I wouldn't buy it ... If it came with a 3 year warranty, maybe, but it's just too much money IMO right now.

SHIMANO - AGAIN !!!!!!!!!! LATE TO THE PARTY !!!!!!!!!!! WELL DONE SRAM ! SHIMANO - HEAD STUCK IN THE SAND

I'd have it if it came on a new bike I could afford but I wouldn't go out of my way to upgrade my standard GX drivetrain