GARBARUK Xtender 34-48T(50) is the new cassette extender made of steel from the Ukrainian brand. This company, owned by Valeriy Garbaruk and Yuriy Garbaruk, has a strong knowledge and experience about components and drivetrains drawn from a solid and serious background in the motorcycle industries. Now that they have given the key of their first company to their children, they have launched GARBARUK following their passion for bicycles.
The GARBARUK Xtender 34-48T(50) is the new extender designed and produced by the Ukrainian brand. This cassette extender features 3 sprockets made of steel and a spider made of Aluminium. Why steel when aluminum can slightly make you win precious grams ? Steel provide a longer lifetime especially requested on the larger sprockets used on regular cassette and cassette extender like the GARBARUK model. When using bigger sprockets on 1x11 drivetain, the chainline is at its best but not optimal, there are lots of frictions that rapidly damaged the larger sprockets, this is why GARBARUK use steel to ensure a good longevity to its products.
Only compatible with Shimano XT M8000, the GARBARUK Xtender 34-48T(50) is available in 2 versions : 34-48t offering 436.4% of range and 34-50t offering 454.5% of range.
Here are the gear ratio, depending if you had the GARBARUK Xtender with a 11/40 or a 11/42 Shimano XT 11 speeds cassette.
- for 11-40T cassette: 11-13-15-17-19-21-24-27-34-40-48(50)
- for 11-42T cassette: 11-13-15-17-19-21-24-28-34-40-48(50)
To improve the shifting quality while using Shimano rear dérailleur M8000, GARBARUK recommend the use of its rear dérailleur cage especially designed to be used with the GARBARUK Xtender 34-48T(50). The cost of this rear cage is 49 euros / 55Us Dollars but you can also buy in a pack with the cassette Xtender for 129 euros (dérailleur cage + cassette xtender).
- Price for the GARBARUK Xtender 34-48T(50) alone : 120 UsDollars / 109 Euros
- Price for the Derailleur Cage alone : 55 UsDollars / 49 Euros
- Derailleur Cage + GARBARUK Xtender 34-48T(50) : 140 UsDollars / 129 euros
GARBARUK Website : http://garbaruk.com
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Find your dealer - distributor : http://garbaruk.com/dealers/
