OneUp Components Shark 10-50T: The widest range 11-speed 1X system ever. A climb crushing, descent hammering, 500% of range.OneUp Shark is a set of modular upgrades for Shimano 11 speed mountain cassettes. Extend the range of your stock Shimano 11-42T cassette by almost a third, by adding a 50T sprocket and cage kit, a 10T cluster or both. Shark allows you to build the perfect cassette for the trails that you ride.
Shark 50T Sprocket and Cage KitIncrease your chainring size by 4 teeth, and still gain range on both ends of your cassette. This means a higher top speed, a better average chainline (you now spend more time in the middle of your cassette) and legs for days on your next backcountry epic. The converted 11-50T cassette is the widest range cassette available that uses a standard freehub body.
Shark 50T Sprocket Tech Specs:Cassette Progression: 11,13,15,18,21,24,28,32,37,42,50
Sprocket Material: 7075-T6 Aluminum (50T), Nickel plated hardened steel (18T). Maintains the 42T as the smallest aluminum sprocket, preventing premature drivetrain wear. No major drivetrain manufacturer goes smaller than a 40T cassette sprocket in aluminum.
Compatibility: XT M8000 11 speed 11-42T cassettes (For Shimano 11-40 use the
OneUp 45T sprocket)
Freehub requirement: Standard freehub
Cassette range improvement: 19%
Colours: Grey or Green
Shark Cage Tech Specs:Pulley Offset: 50% more than stock
Compatibility: Shimano Shadow+ 11spd rear derailleurs
Colours: Grey or Grey/Green
Shark 50T Sprocket and Cage Kit MSRP: $125 USDLooking for even more top end? Add the Shark 10-12T Cluster and OneUp MiniDriver, to gain another 10% range on any 11-speed Shimano mountain cassette.
OneUp has collaborated with
Hope Technology to develop a non-proprietary, freehub body standard that accepts a 10T sprocket. This shortened version of a standard freehub is available for Hope, Stan's and DT hubs with more coming soon. The MiniDriver open standard isn't shrouded in patents, making the production of inexpensive 10T equipped cassettes a future possibility.
10T Cluster Tech Specs:Kit contains: 10-12 cluster, 14T and 15T
Cassette Progression:
- 10-12-14-17-19-21-24-27-31-35-40 (11-40 Shimano converted to 10-40)
- 10-12-14-17-19-21-24-28-32-37-42 (11-42 Shimano converted to 10-42)
- 10-12-15-18-21-24-27-31-25-40-45 (11-45 OneUp'd Shimano converted to 10-45)
- 10-12-15-18-21-24-28-32-37-42-50 (11-50 OneUp'd Shimano converted to 10-50)
Compatibility: Shimano 11-spd 11-40 and 11-42 cassettes and OneUp'd Shimano 11-45 and 11-50 cassettes
Freehub requirement: OneUp MiniDriver (or compatible)
Cassette range improvement: 10%
Colour: Nickel Plated cluster with Green Lockring
MSRP - $45The 500% range of a Shark 10-50T cassette matches a typical 2x11 drivetrain, which should be enough to silence any remaining 2X hold outs.
MiniDriver Tech Specs:Length: 4.5mm shorter than a standard freehub
Lockring Thread: M29
MSRP - $40 for OneUp DT star ratchet compatible MiniDriver
Ride faster, higher and longer with a wider range cassette.
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Same goes with tubeless tyres actually. It is simpler as there is no tube and the sealant seals the punctures and you can run lower pressures as you can't risk a snakebite. At the same time, rims became wider as this allowed the tyres to seat better and not roll off at these lower pressures. Thing is that these wider rims already work better at avoiding snakebites if you do run tubes. And a latex (so no butyl) tube (these green ones) are lighter and more flexible hence don't pucture too easily anyway. I actually bought a kit and a bottle to convert my wheels to tubeless but never got myself to do it. It is harder to put them on, messy if you regularly want to swap tyres and it seems like a bit of a waste if you do puncture on a ride and need to remove your carefully installed valve to get the emergency tube in. I may be swapping more tubes trailside and patching more tubes back at home (as tubeless riders obviously don't) but in return I won't have to bother with refreshing the liquid, removing the gunked up stuff and any frustrating installation issues.
There may be a small performance increase with these new systems but it seems you need so much more refined components and tools to make it all work properly, it doesn't really seem worth it unless you're really competitive and any loss in performance or any bit of time "wasted" on trailside fixes is considered unacceptable and well worth any amount of time spent in the workshop. If you travel halfway around the world for that one event, I get it. But really for someone just going out for a blast missing a few pedal strokes here and there because of a dropped chain or getting just a bit less grip from the tyres (hence requiring a bit more skill and balance to make it work) doesn't really make it that much worse of a ride. What would put me off is if every ride would relate to an obscene amount of maintenance.
I am unfit and when out on the trail bike dont need more than my 30t x 40T cassette, infact using that gear I am pretty much going as slowly as I would if walking up a hill - This is just a product produced for the sake of producing it.
And another one regarding gearing range - How many people spin a 32x11 out other than meaningless fire-roads?! - If you are racing this may matter to you but then if you are racing you are probably fit enough to run a larger ring anyway!
This is just progression into parts for fat guys with money to buy bikes they cant handle so need a band-aid to get up hills. Just get an E-bike and go full idiot.
The freehubs is what the cassette slides on to, it's the ratchet mechanism. The splined cylinder that inevitably get notched out by the torque of the cogs on the cassette.
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regardless my initial point is still valid. the cassette has made a lot of changes and the freehub splines have not changed in a few decades.
@The Raven have you personally experienced the notching I'm explaining? maybe its a non issue and I'm the only one. But I suspect it is a big problem that ruins a lot of freehubs unnecessarily. My comment was/is that although the XD driver may not be the final draft, I appreciate a fresh attempt at this problematic area.
So yeah I do understand that notching can be a problem (as it becomes hard to take the cassette off) but I believe it is more due to the cassette design and freewheel material choice than due to the actual design as the torque hasn't really changed. No one is going to be running a two rings in front any just to have the 22t there as well. The derailleur cage capable to compensate for that would rip your trails apart!
Those "notches" are made by the spline teeth of SRAM cogs, not the squared and wide spline teeth like shimano cogs.
Also, the reason for more gear range was to catch gear ratios up to the bigger wheel sizes. Something people brush off easily.
1x for ease of use and weight reduction.
2x for the steep, while retaining top-end-gearing and component longevity.
10-50 w/34t
50t driven/34t drive = a drive ratio of 1.47
10t driven/34t drive = a drive ratio of .29
10-42 w/30t
42t driven/30t drive = a drive ratio of 1.4
10t driven/30t drive = a drive ratio of .33
11-42 w/32t
42t driven/32t drive = a drive ratio of 1.31
11t driven/32t drive = a drive ratio of .34
You gain some on the high end by being able to run the 34t and still gain a bit on the low end for climbing. Don't quite know how their marketing math works but it is no where near as big of a difference as there big colourful bar graph suggests.
Good concept!
Slightly embellished!
Oneup had to do something to stay relevant / in business with everyone going 1x11.. This 50T makes sense for some people; everyone has different wants a needs, If it doesn't meet yours, sorry. Stop being a self centered pc a shit and move on..
Some 1x and convertible cranks are marketed with an improved chain line for 1x but there is no such thing. If the chainring is moved in for better alignment in the large cogs it I'll be worse on the smaller outer cogs.
This seasons large cogs are just another example if the industry aknowledging the major short comings of 1x and a lot more people are waking up to that fact by calling bullshit on 50t rings and 12 speed cassettes.
Even Norco's newest Optic comes with a 2x crank "for a better chain line" installed and a 1x ring in the box.
When I started riding mountain bikes in 1989 the gearing was primarily 18-speed. Over time this evolved to make gearing 21, 24, 27, 30 and now this 1x11. The former numbers worked and the gear ratios allowed riders to climb steeper and longer.
Five, six years or so ago you started to see 2x10. This puzzled me as the reduction in gears meant a reduction in performance. I sort of proved this when my friend bought a bike with a 2x10 set up. On the climbs were even. On the flat and hills I left him standing. He quickly changed to 3x10.
My predicament is on Friday I bought a Giant Reigned Advanced 0. Unfortunately, it has a 1x11. Hills that I would easily climb on my Scott Genius 720 (3x100) are now impossible.
1x11 is good for manufacturers and LBS. Why...?
More sales... The chain line is so extreme that the chain, sprockets and derailleur will wear out very quickly. This new 50- tooth cog isn't going to improve this situation.
One more thing, the 1x11 is way more tiring simply because the gear ratios are not there. This is fine if you do rides of less than 15- km. For me my rides range from 25-40 km on average. My first ride was just around 25-km in a very muddy West Bragg on Saturday. I was beat at the end of it.
I appreciate the mountains are bigger in Canadia.. but the mud is trudgy and heavy here in Wales.. and most climbs are an evil slog..
I still think its one of the best things to happen to mountain biking, along with tubeless, slackness and dropper posts. IMO
Your comment on your Genius climbing better has less to do with gearing than it does with geometry and how your Reign is designed. When I bought my 2014 Norco Sight all the reviews said it was a very good climber in that category. It is, but it's not as capable of clawing up the steeps as my 2005 Rocky ETSX. But that has very little to do with gearing, it's mostly geometry.
Here's a comparative: My 2x (soon to be 1x) Norco Sight was just about the same climbing as my buddy's 1x Rocky Altitude, which is a burlier AM bike.