Box Components Prime 9 Groupset

Hi,
Anyone have direct experience with the Box Prime 9 groupset? They have three levels, I bought the level "One" and was interested if anyone had installation tips or feedback. I saw this groupset on a couple of sites and loved the idea of a 10-50, one piece cromo cassette, and the fact that you can use any 9 speed chain. Could come in handy when traveling in a part of the world that doesn't stock a SRAM Eagle 12 spd. chain. Also looks easier to work on with less to go wonky.

Lefty52 wrote:Hi,
Anyone have direct experience with the Box Prime 9 groupset? They have three levels, I bought the level "One" and was interested if anyone had installation tips or feedback. I saw this groupset on a couple of sites and loved the idea of a 10-50, one piece cromo cassette, and the fact that you can use any 9 speed chain. Could come in handy when traveling in a part of the world that doesn't stock a SRAM Eagle 12 spd. chain. Also looks easier to work on with less to go wonky.

i had never heard about it until now.  All I know is that the jumps in that cassette are HUGE!  I’m a big 1x fan, but I would not be able to ride something like that.  It might be okay on a mountain bike where you don’t stay in any gear for very long, but finding a good cadence on gravel would be really hard.

I thought about that as well. As I'm looking at this as being a gravel/touring set up and the fact that the Eagle has a 500% range and the Box has 486%, I didn't see much difference. Also, my experience is, I use mostly only 5 gears and all of them are covered by the Box cassette.