Just throwing out my experience and maybe a location to bring up issues or questions. I have to say if you follow these steps the install is SUPER simple.
2022 Ibis Ripley V4S medium 432mm chainstay and 32T XO Transmission 73mm bottom bracket shell with 2.5mm ISCG plate.
That should be all you need information wise from your bike to do this.
1. Installed DUB BB with no inboard spacers, a 3mm outboard non-drive side spacer, a 5mm outboard drive side spacer. (my bb measures 75mm with the ISCG plate, if you have a standard 73mm shell you must use a 3mm non-drive and a 7.5mm drive side outboard spacers)
2. Crank install same as previous SRAM gear, no changes.
3. Prepared my equipment: Set up key on derailleur lined up with B mark. Cut 10 links out of 126 chain to bring it to 116. (that's 5 inner links and 5 outer links)
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4. Pair the pod with the derailleur, also same as previous AXS, by holding down button on derailleur until it blinks green and then hold button on pod until it blinks fast. One more press on derailleur button to turn light off and complete.
5. Shifted the derailleur all they way outboard. Make sure you shift to where the set up cog will be so in my case cog 7 or 5 shifts up from full outboard position (some may use 24T cog which is cog 6 which is 6 shifts up the cassette) I screwed this up for a dumb reason the first time and shifted up from full outboard 7 times. Don't do that.
6. Undo the mounting bolt on derailleur with 8mm Allen (normal threading lefty loosey and all) and put the red bushing into the empty UDH hole on the rear swing arm. Put derailleur over the swing arm mounting area and insert the mounting bolt. Righty tighty until snug and then back off 1 full revolution. (little grease on the mounting bolt) Extend the derailleur cage all the way down to service position, same as all previous EAGLE and push set up button key to lock it. Install rear wheel with cassette installed and tighten the axle to firm and back off 1 full revolution.
7. Thread chain in as you normally would and lock the link with chain pliers. Obviously here flat top up. Chain is threaded around the 21T cog, through derailleur and around chainring. Then push the case forward like you would to unlock it from service position and release slowly so you can push it again (same button) for the next opening where a little A and B line are. This is for set up. Once here grab the lower jockey wheel cage by the little trapazoid guard at the bottom and pull it until the chain is tight and tighten the derailleur mounting bolt to 35 N-m. The line on the metal knurled washer and the derailleur bracket will line up if you have the right chain length, chain stay length, set up key position, and set up cog noted in the pic above for your bike.
8. Tighten the rear axle and Done. Once you take it step by step it's crazy simple compared to having to mess with limits and B tool and compressing suspension to sag, chain wrapping and adding different number of links based on HT or FS, etc... DEAD SIMPLE. Way way faster than cable or AXS setup in the past. Bravo SRAM (almost
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Only issue I ran into was being stupid about how many shifts to get to the set up cog since they reference it as 7 which is correct but obviously that's only 5 spaces away from cog 12 or the smallest one.
Here's my review. WTF SRAM the shifting blows! LOL. I was super stoked to get it on and then ran through the gears downshifting to the largest cog and it was butter! Shifted down cassette and all hell broke loose. Once you get to cog 4 or 5 it's a complete **** show. binding, clicking, skipping, wandering between two cogs, all the way to the 12 cog or 10T. I thought, huh, maybe it just has to go up again and down and it'll be all good. Nope same experience but worse, total crap show. Shifted up and down about 10 times and complete mess every time. I was so pissed I walked away.
Next steps I'm going to play with micro adjust today to see if I can get it straightened out. I know the downshifts (or up the cassette) are supposed to be delayed and the marketing videos say that you may experience unusual "bench" shifting but riding shifting will be perfect. I didn't test that yet either but dubious that it behaves like total garbage on the stand but perfection on the ground. We will see later today.
I set up up perfectly and everything went exactly how they say it should. Perfect and I'm really annoyed that it sucks. Anyone else install and find this or different experiences?
2022 Ibis Ripley V4S medium 432mm chainstay and 32T XO Transmission 73mm bottom bracket shell with 2.5mm ISCG plate.
That should be all you need information wise from your bike to do this.
1. Installed DUB BB with no inboard spacers, a 3mm outboard non-drive side spacer, a 5mm outboard drive side spacer. (my bb measures 75mm with the ISCG plate, if you have a standard 73mm shell you must use a 3mm non-drive and a 7.5mm drive side outboard spacers)
2. Crank install same as previous SRAM gear, no changes.
3. Prepared my equipment: Set up key on derailleur lined up with B mark. Cut 10 links out of 126 chain to bring it to 116. (that's 5 inner links and 5 outer links)
4. Pair the pod with the derailleur, also same as previous AXS, by holding down button on derailleur until it blinks green and then hold button on pod until it blinks fast. One more press on derailleur button to turn light off and complete.
5. Shifted the derailleur all they way outboard. Make sure you shift to where the set up cog will be so in my case cog 7 or 5 shifts up from full outboard position (some may use 24T cog which is cog 6 which is 6 shifts up the cassette) I screwed this up for a dumb reason the first time and shifted up from full outboard 7 times. Don't do that.
6. Undo the mounting bolt on derailleur with 8mm Allen (normal threading lefty loosey and all) and put the red bushing into the empty UDH hole on the rear swing arm. Put derailleur over the swing arm mounting area and insert the mounting bolt. Righty tighty until snug and then back off 1 full revolution. (little grease on the mounting bolt) Extend the derailleur cage all the way down to service position, same as all previous EAGLE and push set up button key to lock it. Install rear wheel with cassette installed and tighten the axle to firm and back off 1 full revolution.
7. Thread chain in as you normally would and lock the link with chain pliers. Obviously here flat top up. Chain is threaded around the 21T cog, through derailleur and around chainring. Then push the case forward like you would to unlock it from service position and release slowly so you can push it again (same button) for the next opening where a little A and B line are. This is for set up. Once here grab the lower jockey wheel cage by the little trapazoid guard at the bottom and pull it until the chain is tight and tighten the derailleur mounting bolt to 35 N-m. The line on the metal knurled washer and the derailleur bracket will line up if you have the right chain length, chain stay length, set up key position, and set up cog noted in the pic above for your bike.
8. Tighten the rear axle and Done. Once you take it step by step it's crazy simple compared to having to mess with limits and B tool and compressing suspension to sag, chain wrapping and adding different number of links based on HT or FS, etc... DEAD SIMPLE. Way way faster than cable or AXS setup in the past. Bravo SRAM (almost
)Only issue I ran into was being stupid about how many shifts to get to the set up cog since they reference it as 7 which is correct but obviously that's only 5 spaces away from cog 12 or the smallest one.
Here's my review. WTF SRAM the shifting blows! LOL. I was super stoked to get it on and then ran through the gears downshifting to the largest cog and it was butter! Shifted down cassette and all hell broke loose. Once you get to cog 4 or 5 it's a complete **** show. binding, clicking, skipping, wandering between two cogs, all the way to the 12 cog or 10T. I thought, huh, maybe it just has to go up again and down and it'll be all good. Nope same experience but worse, total crap show. Shifted up and down about 10 times and complete mess every time. I was so pissed I walked away.
Next steps I'm going to play with micro adjust today to see if I can get it straightened out. I know the downshifts (or up the cassette) are supposed to be delayed and the marketing videos say that you may experience unusual "bench" shifting but riding shifting will be perfect. I didn't test that yet either but dubious that it behaves like total garbage on the stand but perfection on the ground. We will see later today.
I set up up perfectly and everything went exactly how they say it should. Perfect and I'm really annoyed that it sucks. Anyone else install and find this or different experiences?
