With the newest replace to their AXS smartphone app, the SRAM Wi-fi Blips can now be paired to your derailleurs without having a separate major shifter on the bike.
Beforehand, the Wi-fi Blips may solely be added to a motorcycle that had both an ordinary shifter lever (highway) or paddle/pod (MTB), or their BlipBox (triathlon/TT). Now, the app will acknowledge the Wi-fi Blip buttons on their very own, and the one different part required is an AXS rear derailleur to function the “mother or father” part.
This opens up simpler customization of shifter layouts, notably for triathlon and TT bikes that beforehand needed to cover a BlipBox someplace in or on the bike. You’ll be able to pair as much as eight on a single bike, providing you with loads of shift location choices.
Mountain bikers may use it to streamline their cockpit, so long as they don’t want it to regulate the Reverb AXS dropper. The Wi-fi Blips are nonetheless unable to ship a steady sign with a protracted press, in order that they gained’t work for the dropper or with Multi-shift.
They retail for $99/pair and include mounting brackets for drop bars. The Wi-fi Blips aren’t rechargeable and have to be recycled with different electronics after they cease working. SRAM estimates their battery life at as much as two years, with extra frequent riders possible getting a bit of over a 12 months out of them.
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