My upcoming SRAM road predictions:
- Nothing new for 2022. They will sit on new product release until supply chains are flowing better.
- 11sp Mechanical Force/Red are dead. SRAM will go electronic only on future versions, which seems to have been the case for a few years already.
- Rim brake versions will be dead. Discs only.
- Force and Red AXS will get 13 cogs. They'll continue to make 2x with narrower range cassette, but push 1x hard across the adventure/gravel spectrum as a revolutionary evolution that increases range and capability. Campy fans will be enraged by this. Shimano fans will scoff and downplay the need for more gears.
- Gravel specific groupset. Probably something that is two tiered, with a 12sp version in-between Rival and Force, and a 13sp that is basically force but with some rubber textured levers and a different logo and costs $500 more.