Again, the front mech is a side swing mech giving better cable routing and increase clearance for larger wheels and shorter chainstays in comparison to the Tourney TX Top Swing derailleur. These have alloy crank arms and steel chainrings. Like the Altus gear, Acera comes in either 2x or 3x9 set ups with some much more modern looking cranksets available. There are choices to be made here too between a freewheel and sprocket which is threaded on to the hub or standard cassettes that are mounted to a freehub as on any new and contemporary mountain bike. This is the place you’ll also find grip shifters lurking plus other types of thumb shifters you might have thought were consigned to history. We’d say they are all pretty much geared towards commuter or touring bikes with 6-8 speed cassettes and all usually used with a Tourney TY MTB 3x crankset. There are four different models starting with Tourney TZ, Tourney and Tourney TX. Tourney is a bottom of the range drivetrain model that you will most likely see on budget bikes. Here’s how the hierarchy looks, hit the name of each to jump straight to that section: But if you’ve spent any time riding much cheaper mountain bikes, gravel bikes or commuters you’ll know the range starts with the Tourney gear and works its way up to the flagship XTR drivetrain, with the gravity orientated Zee and Saint tagged on the end too. If you’re a dyed in the wool mountain biker, you’d be forgiven for thinking the Shimano drivetrain range consist of Deore, SLX, XT and XTR. The drivetrain is the group of parts comprising of the cassette, mech(s), cranks, chainring, chain and shifter(s), these are the parts we will be looking at here, then we will deal with the brakes in a separate article. Shimano GRX RX600 1x 11speed gravel groupset: prices, weights and specsįirst of all, what is a groupset? It is a collection of bike components designed to work together including shifters, cassette, chain, cranks and brakes you can buy this as a set of components together.Shimano's electric GRX Di2 RX800 11-speed gravel groupset: weights, price and specs.

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We’ll start cheap and work our way up to the brand new XTR 12 speed groupset. There is information on the hierarchy, the prices and some weights too. Can you tell the difference between Shimano XT and XTR? Do you know the details and specification of Deore gears compared to SLX? Here is everything you need to know about the various mountain drivetrains from Shimano.

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