This week John Galloway rejoins Sean for a look at whether to buy the new Sram Rival AXS groupset for his bike.Rather than rehash press releases and a slew of in depth internet articles we decided to take a fairly in depth look at the design and manufacture of transmission components and then looked at which of these features in this, supposedly entry level groupset.

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