Shimano to Support Mondraker DH Team
Bicycle component maker Shimano and downhill mountain biking team MS Mondraker, home to downhill World Champion Danny Hart, today announce their partnership for the next two years. MS Mondraker will ride with Shimano Saint drivetrain components at the highest level of mountain biking in the next two seasons.
The team not only features current and two-time World Champion Danny Hart but also Downhill sensation Laurie Greenland, who comes back to the component brand he used to win 2015’s World Junior title. Hart and Greenland are prolific mountain bikers who, at the ages of 25 and 19, already have three Elite World Championship titles between them. Moreover, as the World’s best Downhill mountain bikers they gives Shimano engineers the best case study for product development.
Hart and Greenland are joined by two other riders familiar with the top step of the podium, and former European champion Markus Pekoll.
MS Mondraker team manager Markus Stöckl: “When we first dreamt of creating a downhill team we set our sights at the highest level: to have world champions pushing the development of the sport. Together now with Shimano we are able to further realise that dream.”
Hart, Greenland, and Pekoll will find Shimano Saint components adorning their full carbon downhill Mondraker Summum 27.5 Stealth frames. As well as World Cup level braking featuring Shimano’s Ice Technology heat management rotors and caliper set up, Saint also features a Duraluminium single chain ring crankset available in three sizes (34T, 36T or 38T) and a Saint Shadow+ 10-speed rear derailleur featuring a chain stabilizing clutch mechanism.
Shimano sports marketing manager Rudy Bouwmeester: “Shimano is thrilled to partner up with one of the strongest downhill teams, MS Mondraker and is committed to supporting the team’s ambitions on the World Cup circuit. We look forward to working with all MS Mondraker athletes and mechanics to continue developing world-class components.”
MS Mondraker kick off their Downhill World Cup season on April 29-30 in Lourdes, France, although team riders will compete in domestic warm-up events including the British Downhill Series in the build-up.
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We may have invented the riding, but we did not invent the gears. Nor have we ever shown to be masters of geared anything.
Saint is a seminar in "if it ain't broke don't fix it".
Now another important question in your case - does e13 make 10-speed wide-range cassettes? Remember Saint would not be compatible with 11-speed (or 11-speed reduced, due to the cog spacing).
@adrennan: another reason to run direct mount indeed.
I've seen guys run Shimano derailleur and Shifter on X.01 cassette. I ran X.0 Shifter and mech on Shimano XT cassette on multiple bikes with no isdue.
For both 10-speed and 11-speed, you can use a Shimano cassette with SRAM shifter/derailleur, or a SRAM cassette with Shimano shifter/derailleur. This is due to SRAM and Shimano both using the same cog spacing. The only things you can't mix and match are different brand shifter and derailleur combos, and that's due to the different cable pull and leverage ratios.
I also have seen guys who mix 10 and 11-speed parts, and it can work...kinda...but it's not going to work that well.
I bought a brand new XO1 derailleur after smashing my OEM one on a rock. Set it up, after a few weeks it wasn't shifting right. Eventually, I realised the cable was slipping in the clamp on the derailleur. When I inspected it, I saw that the mech body was broken there, and the threads totally stripped. In their place was a helicoil, and it was that which was slipping, causing my shifting issues. I complained, they didn't believe me - after all, they said, what manufacturer on Earth would let that through quality control?? Who would have that bad customer service?? I see why they didn't believe it, I doubt I'd believe it if it hadn't happened to me, and you probably won't believe it - but it happened. It cost me less to fully convert to a Shimano 1x11 XT drivetrain then it would have to buy another XO1 mech.
When they pull crap like that and charge stupid prices like that, compared to the impeccable reliability of cost of Shimano XT, SRAM can rot in hell.