Nefarious86 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:21 am
Short of using boat anchor casettes and alloy lever blades where are they going to cut money from force etap? Leave it 11 speed and make red etap redundant?
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Seems highly unlikely that it would be 11 speed, given SRAMs across the board commitment to making products with identical functionality, just different weights. But I'm struggling to see (besides machining costs around the chainrings) where those cost savings are going to come from. There were some interviews with SRAM tech people ~12-18 months ago saying they were targetting the motor cost, but at that stage Force etap wasn't going to be a thing because they simply couldn't get the prices down low enough on the motors to make product differentiation viable - ie. that the motor costs were dominating the overall system costs.
But realistically, if they're cutting costs on the motor relative to that of Red then the only way to do so would be by going downspec relative to that of Red etap, then there goes the identical functionality schtick anyway, so
That then leaves dropping down the costs of the other components, but, well, we come back to the original question of where are they going to save those costs.
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