Frankly, I’m kind of surprised that it took almost 2 years since Shimano ‘reinvented‘ (renaming everything below Deore) all of their mid-tier mountain bike groupsets ... Since there are multiple ...

Obviously, SRAM RED XPLR cranked it up to 13-speed, but it essentially requires a 1x cassette to make it work by angling the largest cogs out over the spokes to utilize the same XDR freehub body. By ...