Curious what bars you’re considering. Sticking with integrated?
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Whaka100 mtb marathon is this weekend in Rotorua NZ.
100km of mainly single track with 3300m of climbing and descending without doing the same trail twice.
Weapon freshly washed and is ready to go. Going with the Schwalbe Rick’s front and rear.
11.3kg as pictured with pedals, cages and an insert in the rear.
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Jealous living in the PNW was some of the best riding of any place I lived. Goals are to get back
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I’ve generally been happy with Enve components but we’ll see. I won’t go integrated so I have the flexibility to change the stem length down the road if needed.
I’d really like to have a carbon bar that I’m able to attach aero bars to. While it’s obviously a mountain bike, I could see using it on chunky ultra type rides/races on occasions and having the aero bars would be a major benefit. I haven’t found very good options yet due to the taper and diameter of most MTB handlebars. Main part of the reason I haven’t pulled the trigger yet.
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For my T-Type friends. Is anyone aware of a 10-44 or similar cassette that is compatible? A 10-50/52 is ridiculous for my region and not needed.
Also, what about chain options? Do we have compatible options available?
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Put on a XPLR derailleur and cassette and let us know how it goes! 
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My buddy tried, It doesn’t work well.
I’m considering going back to AXS Eagle if I can confirm it will work with my epic8.
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Don’t shift into the 52? 
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Obviously.. although I want to take advantage of the a tighter gear ratio.
How does it not work well? Unless you mean trying to use an XPLR cassette with an MTB T type derailleur?
In my buddies case, the xplr rear derailleur didn’t work with his t type shifter. He used my axs eagle shifter to make it work.
The other issue was chain alignment. See below.
I assume you’ve made this work on a MTB?
I tried running the XPLR cassette and the spacing was all off. Didn’t work.
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Did you run it with the xplr derailleur too?
I wonder if a smaller shimano cassette would work?
I haven’t made it work but was curious why it might not.
It seems like it should work fine, but I guess since he had the XPLR cassette on an XD free hub presumably instead of an XDR some of the spacing could be off a bit? Not sure why it would walk off the big cog any worse other than if the big cog on the XPLR cassette lacks some of the retention needed for the MTB cross chaining?
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I would think the key to getting it working is the right chainring spacing and the right chain length for that combo of chainstay/crank/cassette since SRAM probably doesn’t have an official recommendation for the number of links.
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Have you checked chainstay length?
SRAM MTB drivetrains require a minimum chainstay length of 425 mm. Frames that do not meet this requirement must be tested to make sure the drivetrain functions properly. For Gravel bikes with 142 mm OLD and 47.5 mm chainline, the minimum chainstay length is 415 mm.
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XD vs XDR spacing. The inner spacing of the cassette was just off slightly causing it to bind when the QR was tightened to the frame. I removed and compared, they are defo differently spaced. 142 vs boost.
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You would need to run an XDR free hub on your boost hub and it would fit the dropouts properly. You’d then just need to nail down where you want your chainline
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I did. XDR XPLR cassette on MTB XD hub. Didn’t work, spacing caused restricted rotation.
Sorry, edited to make it more clear… you need an XDR free hub to install the XDR XPLR cassette onto. If you install it on an XD free hub it will be too long. You would need to change the hub set from an XD free hub that it probably came with to an XDR free hub.
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