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These videos are great, thank you. Can you do one of these comparing Shimano breaks, rotors and pads? As a big guy who rides e-mtb, brakes are still an unknown for me. Thanks.

Great video! After about 1,500 miles on my Orbea Rise this hub started making a lot of noise. Turned out the inboard freehub bearing was disintegrating. This really is a low-end hub. Thanks to this I did a rebuild and now will keep this as a spare. I bought a new wheel with a much better hub.

Hi, thanks for the video, I have one of these hubs and am about to do my first ever service on it. Can you confirm if the bearings you installed were new or did you clean out the existing ones, regreased and re-used? I have bought myself a bearing puller tool to do the removal instead of using a mallet etc so they might not be damaged as much - thoughts on this method??

Thank you mister ill buy Slx then

Best Shimano 1x12 cost-benefit combination (after you realize a housekeeping in your tool bag can save more grams than paying a kidney on a XTR groupset) is Deore groupset with upgraded wheels, controlled by a XT shifter.

What is you favorite park so far around the immediate Pittsburgh vicinity?

The editing is 🔥🔥🔥

I cannot believe how poor the video quality is on this. I modified the default settings to some that I found on another mountain biker's site and clearly they didn't work well for me. Figuring out what works is all part of the process though. I'll make some adjustments and come back next time hopefully having made some improvements!

You don't need an e-bike with legs like those.

Xtr chain 6000km minimum to 0.5

I'm not sold on beer weight analogy here. Rider's weight is in the center, derailleur's is where rear wheel's suspension is managing the movement. Any additional weight there is far more significant than in the middle of the bike!

XT is so much better in terms of speed-when-you-need-it. If you want to change 4 gears towards smaller cogs, in SLX you have to make 8 motions, in XT you only need 3 ! That's a WIN in my book.

Could you do a video on Shimano Brakes from Deore to XTR as well as a video on rotors front and rear

Thank you for these videos for your time

This is the best explanation and comparison on the web thank you for making these videos really have helped me.

Thanks for sharing

Love your vids explaining the difference between the shimano lines. Ur channel is very informative and ur channel is highly underrated.

Only 250 miles on a chain is insane.

Is that a T8 ? 😍

Going here for the first time next month. Definitely a beginner when it comes to Bike Parks. Any specific recommendations for best trails for beginners/intermediate? Great video, thanks for the tour.

huh...follow step by step, especially the frame rate and duration are all correct, but the gpx animation just not sync well with the video that start and end as the gpx recording start and end at the same time. it will vary fast and slow so i can't simply align either. what could be the reason?

wow an offline tool. this video is so underrated. the title should be more indicative that you made a tool for this than just an average tutorial, much more attractive to me at least if so.

News I can use! Thanks for getting into the details a bit deeper.

Good to know, not covered anywhere else that I have found. Makes wonder how many of the large number of reviews I have that attribute “crisp shifting to the derailleurs and or cassette are really due to this shifter characteristic?

Thank you for taking this one on! Not much out there for the non-ball bearing expert. I have been sucked into the Cane Creek marketing story on their sealed and intrinsically self lubricating assembly. The really useful analysis can only come from “testing it in the rain”. My appreciation for the under valued service to the OCD bicycle community for the therapeutic value of your CZcams series, everyone needs to be able to be with their people to maintain their mental health. Hard to tell how many marriages and relationships have been saved. Keep up the good cause!

Buut which one shifts better?

XO rocks for me. Great value.

Not only jockey wheels. Look closely to the joints in parallelogram mechanism. It's always been with Shimano that lower grops has less joints made the proper way. This attributes to how much play develops in parallelogram mechanism over time. Deore XT has all (4/4) the joints made proper way. SLX - 3/4, Deore - 2/4, Alivio - 1/4, Acera 0/4. Not sure how it is for 12s groups, but I assume same principle.

Garbaruk people ... fabulous stuff

Being able to show off your big black cog for just a $2 penalty is a good investment.

I've never had tubeless... But a tube would've got you home for sure. Just ordered a tubeless bike and I hope I don't have to deal with this shit

The information on shimanos website can be....not the best :) If you checked how much chain slack a shortcage vs longcage 105 derailleur could handle for teeth difference, you will not find an answer. Shimano's website will only tell you the Cassette variation , but if you use a road or gravel crank, that will change the amount of chain slack needed, making the shimano information incorrect.

I have a XT cassette on my MTB and i'm wishing it was SLX or Deore. Had chain slip off 2nd lowest cog the other day, now i have less teeth on the aluminum cog for better weight savings :)

I miss the old days when mountain bikes had front rings over 40 teeth and some 46 or 48 tooth. That, paired with a 10 or 11 tooth small cog in the rear would let you really rip fast down hills. Nowadays, bikes seem to be really limited on that top end speed capability, due to their restrictive single front ring set ups with low 30s tooth count. You just simply cannot pedal as fast as you once used to be able to. What are we supposed to do?

Yes same cassette I bought for my giant full sus I upgraded to slx brakes and so on but I used to have a cassette like the expensive one but it was a pig I hated it garbage but when I changed the cassette to the cheaper one it was snappier more gear range without shifting gears all the time faster too I luv it...

Calling your easily poppable tires Porcupines is a bold move 😅

They could do better and make all cogs titanium. Gonna spend 308$+tax might as well go all in on a MAC DADDY all titanium PRO XTR Di2

Got a new bike with xt shifter not convinced feels cheap hard chrunchy and brittle plus really annoyed double up shift is a poxy thumb push the whole reason i like shimano is index finger up i think deore feels premium way smoother and probly more durable great thing is having the choice to mix and match like the videos thanks

I miss the onza rip front and rail rear tyre i had thease way back in the 1990s they were great front rear specific cant find any info or photos online

Thank you for this video, these info are exactly what I need. I m going to change the chain and your infos are all I need to know about diferences among the chains :)

Can i convert the mt410b to sram xd?

You should definitely have a Super Thanks button, or Patreon etc. Your Video and info in the Description are priceless. My bearings were rumbling and semi-disintegrated - with ball bearings falling out during the freewheel removal, so prepping for the repair ...

Great info, great comparison. Love how you're not a bike snob, like so many others here on the Tube.

I just found that axle tube broken on mine, hard to find spares for this hub

Спасибо, помогло .

Thank you for the great videos and clearing up a lot of mystery surrounding components. Since I don’t want to have to deal with the microspline do your observations apply to the 11 speed versions?

Great Video!!

Great video, but O don’t want to spend the money for a 12 speed microspline. Do your findings apply to the 11 speed components?

If only I could find SLX cranks in 165mm......

Hey buddy, that's amazing! Have you given a throught to do the same for evevation data? I might debug that software myself in the near future