Originally Posted by KonaRider24
This is full of innaccuracies, X.9 is not gripshift. The impulse shifters are easy to use with one finger. One finger on the shifter and one finger on the brake lever, peice of cake with the X.7/X.9. Save the dual control crap to the road folks. Freeriders breaking things to be cool is a bunch of BS as well. Because of our nature of beating on the equipment parts fail quicker than with pansy with xc where the biggest obstacle is a smallish bump and freak out because it can break the bike, stop, dismount walk bike over the small bump and continue on until the next small bump.
I believe this is a picture of a SRAM 1:1
X.9 Gripshift....
Also I cannot see how my experience with the Triggers can be inaccurate. I used the x.9 triggers and hated them so I keep the gripshifters.
The X.9 ergonomics is suitable for me. also the gfear indicator broke on the 2nd ride.
I experince more pain in my hands with those on the bike simply because the palm of my hand is fdoing more support.
Freeriders break things YES But Iknow many freeriders who are Shimano Saint with Dual Control and have not broken the shifters in nearly two years.
So perhaops it's just your lack of skill that causes the failures.
That said, theres no benefit in the SRAM 1:1 ratio. A bigger ratio is better from a mechanical advantage point of view but for twisters to work properly they needed to go 1:1 and used it as a marketing differentiator.
The real benefitto their mechs is the direct cable routing.
Still they don;t outperform Shimano or Suntour so what the big deal?
They american of course or at least marketed by an American company even though the original design is german (Sachs)