yorntje->freerider< schreef:hahaha, ok
ontopic dan maar weer.
persoonlijk vind ik t geen goed idee, omdat iedereen weer nieuwe onderdelen moet gaan aanschaffen, maar dat betekend wel geld in t laatje voor fox en shimano
Iedereen moet helemaal niets Yorn

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Maar ik heb een link gevonden naar een site van een productmanager. Hij heeft wat nieuwtjes voor 2009 en wat meningkjes over de 15mm standaard.
NEWS FOR 2009
Written By Jan Begemann | Date 2007-12-12
Last week was the week of new product launches for MY 2009, held in the capitol city of bicycle industry Taichung City, Taiwan. Nearly all important bike part makers held their first presentations, except Shimano. The Japanese guys always prefer to go their own way...
What I could see was not really revolutionary, but many companies made some very good improvements of their current stuff.
Some examples:
- Fox has now realised, that there are riders who would like to have a remote lever.
- Mavic will have some really exciting new wheelsets for road and mtb.
- The Magura forks are in performance now definitely on the level of Fox, but already a few grams lighter.
- The SRAM Rival groupset will have carbon brake levers.
- Seems that anodized colors are coming back, and everyone offers glossy white handlebars.
More interesting for me as a product managers were 2 other "improvements", and one of them was a matter of considerable debate as most of my colleagues (including me) don't really understand what this shall be good for. Fox and Shimano will introduce a new 15mm "standard" for front hubs, which means Shimano will offer front hubs with 15mm thru axle and Fox will build the forks.
First of all, this is not really a standard, because this system is patented by Shimano / Fox. A standard should be open for everyone, otherwise it's not a standard. Second problem: There is no real reason for this system. Rock Shox and Mavic have already improved the 20mm thru axle system in a way that the estimated weight difference between 15mm and 20mm thru axle may be 10 grams, not more! And comparing to a standard QR system the 15mm is still a thru axle and might not be accepted by the cross country riders, because it takes too much time to get the wheel out of the fork. Instead of introducing a 3rd "standard" I think it would make more sense to improve the current standard QR. DT Swiss already offers a very good system, a 9mm oversize QR, that still matches to standard dropouts. For me it seems that the only reason the new 15mm "standard" is to f... Rock Shox / SRAM - they have the patent on the "Maxle" system, which is by far the best existing thru axle system. At this point I would like to say "Thank you very much" to Magura. They agree with me regarding the "Maxle", and instead of introducing a 4th standard, they just buy the Maxle from Rock Shox and put it in their forks!
The most interesting issue for me was something that only became possible, because Cannondale did exactly the opposite of Shiamno and Fox. They opened the patent on their current BB system for everyone, now called the "BB30" standard, which for me is the best BB system on the market. FSA and SRAM already picked it up and will offer chainwheels for road and mtb from 2009 on. The "BB30" requires a bigger bb shell diameter, but I think this system will be the future as it obviously allows to build lighter cranks combined with more stiffness in the whole system. More details will follow.
Cheers,
Jan
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