SRAM Eagle: how the revolutionary groupset has evolved in six years
From the distinctly affordable to World Cup ready performance, Eagle has it all
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SRAM’s revolutionary 1x-specific Eagle groupset has grown to encompass everything from the distinctly affordable NX Eagle to the top-tier XX1 since it first debuted six years ago.
Critically, this shared technology means that every component from each groupset is compatible with each other. This makes sourcing replacement parts or gradually upgrading a much more simple proposition.
Watch as Chris from SRAM talks us through the Eagle ecosystem, hints towards something that we’re all expecting to see soon and explains what makes Eagle unique in an increasingly crowded marketplace for 1x drivetrains.
Authors
Jack Luke is the deputy editor at BikeRadar and has been fettling with bikes for his whole life. Always in search of the hippest new niche in cycling, Jack is a self-confessed gravel dork, fixie-botherer, tandem-evangelist and hill climb try hard. Jack thinks nothing of bikepacking after work to sleep in a ditch or taking on a daft challenge for the BikeRadar YouTube channel. He is also a regular contributor to the BikeRadar podcast. With a near encyclopaedic knowledge of cycling tech, ranging from the most esoteric retro niche to the most cutting-edge modern kit, Jack takes pride in his ability to seek out stories that would otherwise go unreported. He is also particularly fond of tan-wall tyres, dynamo lights, cup and cone bearings, and skids. Jack has been writing about and testing bikes for more than six years now, has a background working in bike shops for years before that, and is regularly found riding a mix of weird and wonderful machines. Jack can also often be seen zooming about with his partner aboard their beloved tandem.
