Testing the 'EDS' - A Chinese Engineered alternative to Sram AXS

The EDS is a wireless derailleur and shifter engineered in China by Wheeltop. THE EDS promises to offer similar performance to Sram AXS, with good battery life, chain retention, and wireless performance. Today we're going to find out if that's true!

The unit featured in the video is pre-release, and so the firmware and app are not 100% finished.

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[fifthcircle]

Props to the cameraman for that underwater shot of the derailleur. 👌🏻

[ericjones]

Went riding at Bryce Park in VA yesterday. Half the people I talked to on the lift wound up mentioning Seth in some way. You're a full on celebrity in the mtb community, and well deserved. You've had a hugely positive impact on generations of riders around the country, not to mention your success with Berm Park. Cheers!

[andrewpm]

Been waiting for this. This product just forced SRAM and Shimano to do variable speeds on their next gen derailleurs, not because they didn't think about it, but because they intentionally withheld it so they could charge more money for a so called "upgrade". This is now an expectation at no additional cost. Great review.

[axelrodyao]

Sorry for those poor translation in the manual😂, “轮峰” is a small company in China, it used to make entry level OEM products like Chainring or crank. the Application problem might because it only can downloaded in China( where google play is banned).

And that confusing page of manual just means push the downside button will downshift.

[indetrucks]

This is now available (just got an email). Picked it up at your recommendation, thanks for the review!.
Update, installed working GREAT but had a few questions regarding the EDS system and so far, 3 emails to customer service and no response.
Update* Received a response, everything explained. This system rips and love the individual gear adjustments!

[Four_Year_Chaos]

That underwater derailleur shot through the creek was awesome. Nice work

[stefanc]

This is the best channel. Seth you test everything from top of the line to super cheap. There's something for everyone and it's always entertaining. Thanks so much!

[tylerjolley]

Seth, love that you're still using the chain made out of all master links:)

[SyLens]

I love the chinese bike market, im a roadie and recently we’ve been blessed with sensah and ltwoo’s latest groupsets offering performance and weight from 1500-2000€ groupsets for 200-300€. The chinese market is a blessing as western companies will have to adjust prices to keep customers. People used to be skeptical about chinese market products but more and more people are getting into it atm.

[keithbreaux]

I’m glad there are other options for components other than Shimano, SRAM, and Campagnolo. The bike industry is outrageously expensive.

[brekdakbanchamek]

The Cameraman's sense of cinematography especially on that Sunset and Underwater scene is so remarkable and professional like for real, Props to Seth for being Really patient in testing and Criticising these product, real professional right there

[chrisblight]

I've been bikeless for the last twelve months after having lost the taste for mountain biking. Watching Seth's videos over the past few weeks has me excited at the prospect of mountain biking again, and I can't wait to get back in the saddle. Thanks from sunny Wales, Seth!

[alwaysInMotion]

Love that you did fairly objective review of a Chinese product. I think sometimes we immediately dismiss products from China just because. But this company’s actually been around longer than SRAM, they’re just not as well known. If these are viable competition, then it would be good for us consumers. I’d be curious to see the long term review. And yes, though the product may be good, I wonder why these companies don’t invest as much in the user experience (manuals and the app and user support).

[LukALX]

Thank you for all your hard work and commitment Seth.

$400 is still quite an investment. I remember when dropper posts were super expensive and now you have great droppers at a fraction of the cost. Hopefully same happens to electronic shifting and electronic droppers etc etc.

[theshonen]

The fact that you can program it to any speeds is a gamechanger.

[Prosper_NA]

Hey Seth, your flip bike videos inspired my poor college self to buy a bucket of parts, slap it together with some touch-up paint and send it down a hill. Now I'm left wanting better this and smoother that (my bank account has rude things to say about the price of good parts). Thanks for inspiring me to do this, it's been a blast.

[luisfernandoacostacanales]

Wtf?

I waited for a review of this group set from someone, but I've never expect that you could be that one guy.

[MrPhotodoc]

The review and the product was good but the icing on the cake was for sure the photography.

[ThePeteBeef]

Production value off the chart now Seth. Brilliant vid as usual.