Limited Exclusive Edition Box One Presented by Neil Patrick Harris Game

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As such, the Box One Prime 9 system has been designed with durability and shifting performance in mind, and although it only has nine gears, it still shares its wide-ratio cassette range with other brands’ 12-speed offerings.

Although the derailleur’s limit screws and b-tension were easy to set, indexing the gears was much harder than I was expecting. Box ONE is an ever-evolving game of trivia, codes, puzzles, and discovery - only from the mind of Neil Patrick Harris. General operation was quiet, too, and shifting under power was good – as long as the shift lever was pushed far and hard enough. Box Components provides installation and set up guide videos on its YouTube channel to help with the finer details of getting the drivetrain installed and running smoothly. To access the fourth shift I needed to move my thumb more than was possible without rotating my wrist around the bar.Team up with other players and enter the Horizon Arcade for a continuing series of fun, over-the-top challenges that keep you and your friends in the action and having fun with no menus, loading screens or lobbies.

It has nickel plating that’s claimed to help reduce corrosion and is coated with its Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) finish to improve hardness, reduce wear and increase smoothness. The cable-pull shift lever moves the derailleur before the shifter ratchet engages the next gear, so if I missed a shift it caused the derailleur to shift back to a smaller cog on the cassette with a large clunk. Weight-wise, the full 1,375g Box One Prime 9 setup I’ve reviewed is roughly equivalent to SRAM NX Eagle’s 1,362g weight and Shimano Deore M6100’s 1,330g. I fitted the Box One Prime 9 to two different bikes – my Yeti SB165 long-term test bike and Marin Alpine Trail XR – and compared it back-to-back with a host of other drivetrains from SRAM, Shimano and other brands. The lever has a lot of travel before a shift is engaged, too, so a fair amount of sustained force was required to change each gear, which didn’t feel particularly natural.

At the clutch’s factory setting, there was significantly more chain slap than I was expecting and when pedalling in a high gear over rough ground, the gears had a tendency to skip around the cassette. Prepare to set out on an exciting adventure like no other as you discover, decode, and unlock the secrets of Box ONE. The factory setting for the derailleur’s clutch is stiff, which means its initial movement has a significant resistance peak before the cage is able to smoothly pivot forwards. Installation was relatively straightforward and I was particularly thankful for the shifter’s hinged bar clamp, which meant I didn’t need to remove the grips or brake lever from the bar to install it. The Box One Prime 9 rear derailleur has been designed to work best with Box’s 9-speed 11-50t cassette.