I haven't posted before. I bought my son a Commencal Meta HT earlier this year. Went for the cheap trim to save money and get him on a better bike for his team, but immediately realized some of the components were too cheap for any kind of riding. It's all the sram sx stuff which is plastic and the brakes were pretty much worthless.
Anyway, my question is can I significantly improve his shifting experience by exclusively replacing the derailleur with a Sram GX, or do you need to replace the shifter, too? I'd rather do the one thing right now, but not if it won't make a major improvement in the ride.
We ride the same size bike, so I can tell how much you get thrown around on casual shifting. He asked me if he could upgrade something and I think this would be the most significant improvement since we've already done the brakes.
I can't speak to the quality of shifting for either sx or gx, but as far as compatibility, you should be good to keep using the same shifter. A quick heads up, in my five second search, it appears that there is gx eagle, which is the 12-speed, and just regular gx, which is 10 or 11-speed, so make sure you buy the right one.
Thanks. I just didn't know if the action in the shifter itself has a dramatic effect on the feel of shifting.
I haven't posted before. I bought my son a Commencal Meta HT earlier this year. Went for the cheap trim to save money and get him on a better bike for his team, but immediately realized some of the components were too cheap for any kind of riding. It's all the sram sx stuff which is plastic and the brakes were pretty much worthless.
Anyway, my question is can I significantly improve his shifting experience by exclusively replacing the derailleur with a Sram GX, or do you need to replace the shifter, too? I'd rather do the one thing right now, but not if it won't make a major improvement in the ride.
We ride the same size bike, so I can tell how much you get thrown around on casual shifting. He asked me if he could upgrade something and I think this would be the most significant improvement since we've already done the brakes.
I can't speak to the quality of shifting for either sx or gx, but as far as compatibility, you should be good to keep using the same shifter. A quick heads up, in my five second search, it appears that there is gx eagle, which is the 12-speed, and just regular gx, which is 10 or 11-speed, so make sure you buy the right one.
Thanks. I just didn't know if the action in the shifter itself has a dramatic effect on the feel of shifting.
I am not well versed int he differences with SRAM, but in Shimano, usually the shifter makes a fair amount of difference.
I haven't posted before. I bought my son a Commencal Meta HT earlier this year. Went for the cheap trim to save money and get him on a better bike for his team, but immediately realized some of the components were too cheap for any kind of riding. It's all the sram sx stuff which is plastic and the brakes were pretty much worthless.
Anyway, my question is can I significantly improve his shifting experience by exclusively replacing the derailleur with a Sram GX, or do you need to replace the shifter, too? I'd rather do the one thing right now, but not if it won't make a major improvement in the ride.
We ride the same size bike, so I can tell how much you get thrown around on casual shifting. He asked me if he could upgrade something and I think this would be the most significant improvement since we've already done the brakes.
I can't speak to the quality of shifting for either sx or gx, but as far as compatibility, you should be good to keep using the same shifter. A quick heads up, in my five second search, it appears that there is gx eagle, which is the 12-speed, and just regular gx, which is 10 or 11-speed, so make sure you buy the right one.
Thanks. I just didn't know if the action in the shifter itself has a dramatic effect on the feel of shifting.
If the bike in question is equipped with Sram SX shifter and derailleur you can definitely replace them.
The SX shifter AND derailleur are really bad components for any mountain bike. Unless you ride paved paths on your mountain bike, occasionally..
I'd recommend getting a GX 12speed derailleur first then make the kiddo earn the GX 12 speed shifter to match it.
There are 12 speed cassettes with a 11t highest sprocket that fit a standard HG freehub. It's the 10t sprockets that require a special freehub (XD for SRAM or Microspline for Shimano).
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