Press Release
What matters most to hardcore mountain bikers? Performance, durability, affordability, and style. Truvativ’s new Descendant series serves up all of these with confidence to spare. Guided by input from some of the most talented riders in enduro and gravity, each component in the Descendant lineup has been built to survive mountain biking’s most aggressive riders and thrive on the world’s rowdiest trails.Descendant Carbon CranksetThe svelte strength of carbon fiber with the swagger of heavy metal. The Descendant carbon crankset uses a proprietary Truvativ carbon construction process that delivers a crankset light enough for XC, yet bold and badass enough for Enduro. Style and substance—Descendant.
Details
• Less weight with direct mount ring
• Most affordable carbon crankset in the industry
• Carbon construction for lightweight durability
• Fully compatible with any 1x drivetrain
• Speeds: 10/11
• Price: $311-340 | €340-371 | £262-286
• BB Compatibility: BB30/PF30-68/73mm, GXP/PF GXP 68/73mm
• Chain Ring: 32
• Crank Arm Length: 175mm, 170mm
• Crank Arm Material: Carbon
• Weight: 587g (24mm, 32t, 175mm arms)
Descendant CranksetAggression with attitude. These forged aluminum cranks, with direct mount rings, feature the 1x benchmark SRAM X-Sync tooth profile. With attitude matched only by pure performance, these cranks deliver. Meet a whole new side of the mountain—Descendant.
Details
• Less weight with direct mount ring
• Super-stiff design
• 7000 series forged aluminum arms
• Fully compatible with any 1x drivetrain
• Direct mount ring
• Price: $161-188 | €175-205 | £134-158
• BB Compatibility: BB30/PF30-68/73mm , GXP/PF GXP 68/73mm
• Chain Ring: 32
• Crank Arm Length: 170mm, 175mm
• Speeds: 10/11
• Weight: 674g (24mm, 32t, 175mm arms)
Descendant DH CranksetWhether your target is high speed or big air, an unwavering focus on dependability and style can never be overlooked. Blending the experience of countless DH podiums, big mountain competitions and film sessions, the new Descendant DH crank brings clock-beating weight savings to freeride burliness—at a price that will leave money for the next adventure. Meet your gravity goals—Descendant.
Details
• Lightweight DH crank set
• New graphics, World Cup proven design
• Fully compatible with any 1x drivetrain
• X-Sync chainring
• Speeds: 10/11
• Weight: 725g (24mm, 34t, 165mm arms)
• Price: $151-196 | €166-214 | £122-158
• BB Compatibility: GXP 83mm/PF GXP 104.5/107mm, PF30 83mm
• Bolt Circle Diameter: 94 BCD
• Chain Ring: 34
• Crank Arm Length: 165mm, 170mm
• Crank Arm Material: Aluminum
Descendant StemMix and Match might work for clothing, but not your mountain bike cockpit. The new Descendant stem is 3D forged from 7050 alloy, then machined for weight reduction, and is the perfect match for your Descendant bars—not that you’re worried about that kind of thing. Built strong, to take on the world’s toughest trails, Descendant stems keep you pointed in the right direction.
Details
• Perfect match with Descendant handlebars
• 3D forged 7050
• CNC machined for weight reduction
• Weight: 149 – 168g
• Price: $65 | €71 | £54
• Four bolt handlebar clamp
• Two bolt steerer clamp
• Clamp diam: 31.8mm
• Length (ST): 40mm, 50mm, 60mm
• Stem angle/rise: 0 degrees
Descendant DH BarYou say you want a wide, stiff, strong, championship-winning design? Here you go. The new Descendant DH bar borrows from a rich championship-winning heritage, and adapts it to today’s aggressive courses and riders. Descendant DH bars are the command center of cornering control.
Details
• Made with tough 7050 alloy
• Descendant geometry from our best DH/Gravity rider’s input
• Application: Freeride/Downhill
• Price: $70 | €77 | £59
• Clamp Diam: 31.8
• Rise: 25mm
• Width: 800mm
• Back Sweep (degrees): 9
• Upsweep (degree): 5
Combine a proven shape, proven width, proven materials and a take-no-prisoners approach, and you’ve got the new Carbon and 7050 Descendant bars. They are stiff, tough, dependable, and give you all the comfort and positive steering feel you could want. Descendant series bars are the new normal for comfort and control.
Descendant Riser Bar
• Material : Carbon or Al-7050
• Back sweep (degrees): 7
• Clamp Diam: 31.8
• Rise: 20mm
• Upsweep (degree): 5
• Width: 750mm (Carbon), 760mm (Alloy)
• Price (carbon/alloy): $150/65 | €163/71 | £126/54
Descendant Flat Bar
• Material: Carbon or Al-7050
• Descendant geometry from our best enduro rider’s input
• Back Sweep (degrees): 7
• Clamp Diam: 31.8
• Type : Flat
• Width: 750mm (Carbon), 760mm (Alloy)
• Price (carbon/alloy): $150/65 | €163/71 | £126/54
www.sram.com/truvativ
Near one drivetrain announcement by month for Sram, and I was thinking that Truvativ has been eaten by Sram like Avid.
Time to tidy your range, no ?
SRAM reallly has three cranks relevant to mtn bikes, each branded under multiple lines. Carbon direct mount rings (XX1, X01), hollow alloy direct mount rings (S1400, X9, Rival, etc), and alloy w/ integrated spider (S1000, X5, GX, X1, etc).
Sure there are variations for Q-Factor, BB width, and BB30...but the designs within these three groups are largely the same.
This is the first carbon crank I've seen of a new shape from SRAM since they released 2012 Red...
I'm so lost with their lineup of stuff...and it's not intuitive by name which ones are the higher end product between xx, x1 and xo1, especially when XO was their top of the line just a few years ago.
Either way, when it comes to carbon cranks it's Race Face > Sram in my book. Next SL and Sixc!!
But could someone explain what the point of sram/truvativ is if both lines are owned by SRAM and making cranksets for the same genres of mountain biking?
Shimano XT.
Trail crank ?
Shimano XT.
All mountain/endugrow crank ?
Shimano XT.
Park/DH crank ?
Shimano Saint....... Oh, wait !!!!
If it's one thing the market's missing, is another not light, but not really heavy either set of cranks.
Looks like SRAM is trying to mimic Saint
www.sram.com/truvativ/products/descendant-seatpost
www.pinkbike.com/news/truvativ-descendant-cranks-2010.html
800mm DH bars are big? My Giant Reign came with a 810mm bar and I love it
"Crank Arm Length: 165mm, 170mm"
under the Descendant DH crankset specs.
The Descendent Carbon Cranks only come in 175mm according to the press release. That's ridiculous for todays current crop of long, low, slack enduro bikes.
"Aftermarket" companies?..RaceFace (making the lightest/strongest carbon bars) Easton, Nukeproof, and many more that are making 35mm bars...seems only logical that Truvativ would offer them as an option..don't cha think?
And.."pushing"...you mean, Offering.
In saying that Boost has given bike manufacturers more of what they needed than light carbon bars with a larger clamp diameter have. Yet Boost is considered something being pushed on us... The BIke world man! she's a crazy place! sometimes running away and pretending it doesn't exist seems like a good idea...
Yes..They're all Aftermarket companies...Sorry I thought you were making the point that Truvativ is NOT one of the "cool aftermarket' companies..(love Chromag bars btw..owned several)...having owned both 31.8mm and 35mm bars/stems, I prefer 35mm simply because companies seem to be able to make them lighter..and they look a little more burl...Re: Stiffness/Strength of 35mm and Boost..I have never felt ANY difference between 31.8/35mm Bar/Clamp OR 135/142/150 hub spacing..so Boost is better because it's "stiffer" is just Marketing IMO...And YES..the bike world is a crazy place!
I was more making the point that something that has shown to have very good benefits but is brought to us through a large company Such as SRAM it's generally looked at as just something else being "pushed" on us. But when aftermarket companies come up with a new product that has very few benefits to the overall bike world... everyone just kinda moves along and says nothing while it becomes ultra popular...
what if Hope was the company that came out and showed us why BOOST was needed and not SRAM? good chance people would have thrown less hate and would have been more willing to actually learn what all the benefits were when it came to new bike designs.
Yeah it's not flashy but it's a trickle down groupset that's got everything people want but at a cost that's far more reasonable.