Rotor explains its 13-speed modular drivetrain

Rotor's Lori Barrett gets tech on the inner workings of its 13-speed hydraulic drivetrain

Rotor's Lori Bennett talks 13 gears with BikeRadar Tech Ed Alex Evans

Alex Evans

Published: May 7, 2019 at 11:34 am

As one of the most noteworthy releases of 2018, Rotor's 13-speed hydraulic groupset certainly wowed us with its innovative features and exceptionally tidy execution.

Jack reviewed the 1x13 groupset earlier this year, awarding it an impressive four out of five stars, thanks to Rotor's mission to add more useable gear ratios, its modular design and top performance.

We caught up with Rotor's Lori Barrett at Sea Otter 2019 to talk us through some of the more techy features of the novel groupset.

Alex Evans

Senior technical editor

Alex Evans is BikeRadar’s senior mountain bike technical editor. He started racing downhill at the tender age of 11 before going on to compete across Europe. Alex moved to Morzine in the French Alps at 19 to pursue a career as a bike bum and clocked up an enormous amount of riding. Hitting those famous tracks day in, day out for eight years, he broke more bikes than he can remember. Alex then moved back to the UK and put his vast knowledge of mountain biking to good use by landing a job working for MBUK magazine as features editor. Since working for MBUK, Alex’s focus has moved to bike tech. He’s one of BikeRadar’s lead testers and knows how to push bikes and products to the limit, searching out the equipment that represents the best value for money. Alex is also a dedicated eMTB rider, and still dabbles in racing of a sort, doing his best to top the Strava leaderboard on the steepest, gnarliest and twistiest trails the Tweed Valley has to offer – just for fun, of course. Alex is also a regular on the BikeRadar YouTube channel and BikeRadar podcast.

Rotor explains its 13-speed modular drivetrain

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