Recently jack has got a new mountain bike featuring SRAMs revolutionary xx1 11 speed group set.

Jack has set it up with a 34 tooth front ring at the moment on a hardtail 29er mountain bike.

Here’s jack thoughts…

I rode the xx1 for the first time a few weeks ago and to be honest I wasn’t taken to the idea but I have to say it is a complete different world to everything I’ve ridden before! I be tried to get chain slap in every gear but the clutch mechanism just won’t let you! I’m running a 34 chainring at the moment and think this is great for racing but going to try a 36t for local riding and training as just feels like I spin it out a bit too much!

Setting up the gears seems to be a little more temperamental initially but I have had no trouble on the trails since !

The only downside I can find to it is the price however it is still well worth it for the performance of the product!

Please see a few pictures at the bottom of the page of jacks setup!

So with the summer now here or should we say slowly coming I asked jack what the plans for the next month or so are?

I’m fully focused on cyclocross this year so the summer is going to be spent mainly training with a couple of races on Tuesday evenings at Tameside (circuit series) and am going to try do most of yorkshires summer cyclocross series but this depends on how it works with training etc first one been the end of the month in Huddersfield

If you have any questions you want to put to jack on the xx1 or his plans for the summer feel free to contact us!