Older Shimano's XTR and XT V-Brakes feature a special parallelogram linkage. This serves two purposes: It causes the brake shoes to remain at the same angle to the rim throughout the stroke, and ...

Shimano just launched the M9000 XTR mountain bike component group (see our first look here), moving to 11-speeds and adding a single chainring option. Eleven speeds and single ring sound familiar?

Motor controlled shifting with clever sequential mode and interesting integration Shimano have announced details of a new Di2 electronic version of its top-tier XTR mountain bike groupset.