The cassette is amazing, we've gone over that. The chain, not surprisingly, is a standard SRAM 1090 10spd chain. You can also run the lightweight 1090R that has the hollow pins. The XX brakes are basically Avid Elixir brakes rebadged XX although they have Titanium bolts throughout. You can easily run these brakes one finger style. Plenty powerful. Also pleasantly surprised to see Avid went with a floating rotor with the XX brakeset. I have been running floating rotors for years with my Hope Mono Mini's.
The XX shifters are pure butter. The front shifter is amazing, short throw & light action. I assume it helps that there are only 2 chainrings to go between but, it also helps that the front derailleur isn't a rebadged XO model. The front der is completely new. There are 18 versions of the front der (Direct mount, top mount, bottom mount, + top pull, bottom pull & each chainring combo). And yes all the sdjustments use a T25 driver, cable fixing bolt/ seattube clamp/ limit screws.
The rear shifter is very similar to its XO brother, except the low gear paddle is made of carbon whereas the XO is aluminum. Not to mention the extra gear. I adjusted the levers to allow 5 cogs at a time. You can adjust the levers to your shifting style whether you are a 1 cog at a time or 5. Awesome.
Next up: The rear derailleur, S-Works cranks, Roval wheels, RockShox fork and most importantly the frame.
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