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The new SRAM Red group was put to its first open test on the Spanish island of Mallorca on Wednesday

From inside Park Tool’s ninth Tech Summit in Atlanta, Georgia

Also: setting up a mixed group with Chorus/Centaur

Readers prompted Caley to answer the question: exactly how much does an 800-pound Specialized gorilla weigh?

Also, is water OK for your bike and Gore cables

Fit for purpose

on carbon durability, carbon seatposts, KMC, mixing SRAM and Shimano

Careful rear derailleur installation, maintaining a bike for indoor riding, adjusting your cassette rather than your derailleur

Overall this is an excellent brake, but is it really necessary for anyone but a top level cross country racer

SRAM is replacing the bushing that currently resides within all X9 shifter bodies with ball bearings

Thieves took eight bikes that are used in SRAM's 2X10 mountain bike demo program

Proto' shifters on Jaroslav Kulhavy's world championship-winning Epic

A look at the new lightweight SRAM cassette that Levi Leipheimer used in the USAPCC prologue

For 2012 SRAM is offering additional 2X10 gear options.

New for 2012: SRAM's first carbon downhill race crank and DH-specific derailleur.

SRAM is out with redesigns of the company's Avid brakes — XX and XX World Cup to be exact.

Quarq, makers of the CinQo crank-based power meter, announced today that it has been bought by SRAM.

Quick look: If you ride white handlebar tape, white shoes and white shorts, then check out the new white Apex.

X0 now sexier in silver and easier to spin with 38/24 and 36/22 chainring options

SRAM adds new color option for its Red groupset

A reader asks Lennard Zinn about running Shimano chains on SRAM cassettes.

Lennard Zinn weighs in on running a Shimano-SRAM combo as well as road and MTB setups.

A close look at world cyclocross champion Zdenek Stybar's Ridley X-Night

A reader says his new 2x10 drivetrain was the wrong choice. Tech-guru Lennard Zinn says a modification is possible.

A reader struggles with chain-suck, another asks about a wide range of gearing.

Slideshow: Greg Herbold has remained one of the more recognizable characters in the bike industry since the early days of fat tires. His old Miyata race bike from the early to mid-1990s wears the years well too.

Ah, the pain and joy of testing time trial gear. Zack Vestal installs and rides Zipp's Vuka R2C shifters and VukaShift aero extensions.

When considering bike components, lower price can mean inferior performance. Singletrack.com's one-man wrecking crew Zach White says that's not necessarily the case with SRAM's new Avid Elixir 3 hydraulic disc brakes.

If the Leadville Trail 100 was your second 100-mile mountain bike race ever, how would you set up your bike? This is how Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski is doing it.

SLIDESHOW: What's Dave Wiens Running at Leadville this year? Check it out in the Singletrack.com tech gallery.

Check out Zach White's author page.

Check out Zach White's author page.

Singletrack.com's resident-wrench, Lennard Zinn, has a full mailbag this week: Readers want to know about SRAM XX and lubin' various things up.

Confused by what you're buying? The RockShox product line is getting a new way of decoding the goods.

As the Sea Otter Classic is "Powered by SRAM," the Chicago company uses the event each year to introduce its new products. Lennard Zinn brings them to you here.

RadioShack's Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer and Jason McCartney will race under as Team Mellow Johnny's at the SRAM Tour of the Gila in New Mexico.

Lennard Zinn tries out the new budget-friendly SRAM Apex group on the roads of Laguna Seca.

SEA OTTER: Singletrack.com's Zach White reports from the Sea Otter Expo area with what's new, improved and just kinda cool.

Fabian Cancellara was obviously the strongest man in the Tour of Flanders, and his Specialized Tarmac SL3 was equally up to the task, despite one small technical difficulty.

Avid's Elixir 3 and RockShox's Sektor 150mm fork are SRAM's newest offerings at attainable prices.

Using technologies pioneered in SRAM's first 10-speed MTB group XX, X7 is designed to bring 2x10 to mid-level cross-country riders, entry-level downhillers and freeriders.

What's XXtra cool about SRAM's new group is that it works well not just on anorexic cross-country race hardtails, but on 5-inch, full-suspension trail bikes.

Now that SRAM's XX group is available to the masses on 2010 bikes and in aftermarket catalogues, the question is does it deliver? Singletrack.com's Technical Editor Zack Vestal gives you the low-down in a two-part XX review.

SRAM has announced plans to release a new entry level road group, intended to compete against Shimano’s 105 group, in the spring of 2010.

The XG999 uses the same manufacturing techniques that produced SRAM's XX MTB cassette as well as the PowerDome road cassette and weighs in at 175 grams.

Components Manufacturer Plays Establishing Sponsor Role for National Organization

Here’s the latest sponsorship news we’ve rounded up from across the bike racing world

A reader just bought a $5,000 bike and something ain't right. Singletrack.com's resident wrench Lennard Zinn views the reader's video and offers some thoughts.

Team RadioShack’s riders spent part of their Tucson training camp getting familiar with each other and with their new 2010 Trek Madone 6-Series bikes.

The 87 members of Team IMBA 2009, raised a total of $84,937 for local and national trailbuilding projects by riding their bikes.

Despite the fact that the barbecue wine was Silver Oak and the bonfire was stoked with old art crates, a weekend at Lance Armstrong's ranch was still just a bunch of great folks enjoying the mountain bike lifestyle.

A reader asks if there are any 180mm 2x9 specific cranks on the market, or are taller riders just out of luck?

In NASCAR, rubbin's racing, but when it comes to disc brakes on your rig it's just annoying.

Are SRAM shift levers durable?

What can I do about a broken SRAM road shifter lever?

Can I mix SRAM XX parts with SRAM road parts?

Can I rebuild SRAM Red shifters?

My SRAM Force shift lever broke, what can I do?

Can I combine SRAM mountain and road components to produce hillclimb gearing?

SRAM, in conjunction with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, has announced a voluntary recall of the SRAM 10-Speed Chain PowerLock connector links. SRAM reports that the PowerLock outer connector plate could crack during installation or early use, causing the chain to separate and leading to loss of bicycle control and possible injury. For this reason, SRAM is recalling and replacing all affected SRAM 10-Speed Chain PowerLock connector links.

Dear Lennard, Question for you re: forks for long head tubes. I'm 6'4" and have a Seven Axiom with a roughly 30cm head tube and a Seven rebadged Reynolds carbon fork on it. It is a bit flexy when braking while cornering and I'd like to improve that. What options are out there and how do they rate vs. each other? I know Alpha Q makes one with a steerer long enough (as seen on your bike) as does Storck, but want to understand if they are better than the Reynolds vis a vis flex/rigidity. Ted Dear Ted,

What's the advantage of ceramics?

What's an alternative to Rohloff chains on Campy drivetrains?