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Before I start here, this isn't a complaint, not really anyway, just a curiosity.
I've recently bought a new Whyte s150s from a very well known bike shop, not an Evans or whatever but everyone reading this will have heard of them, and I've just noticed the crank isn't the one it should be. It should be a GX, but it's come with a Truvativ Descendant.
The only reason I've noticed is I was about to buy a GX cheap on an online offer as an upgrade / spare but it should have one on anyway.
From what I can gather, the SRAM is lighter with a higher rrp, so it does feel like a downgrade
Can anyone think why that would be? Did the original take a knock in the shop so they changed it with an approximate equivalent?
somewhere in the small print it'll say something like 'spec correct at time of print, manufacturer reserves right to change spec without notification'
It could be many things, maybe a shortage of the specified crank at the manufacturer and orders to meet, maybe a warranty recall you don't know about yet, maybe a human error..... best bet is speak (reasonably) to the shop about it and see what they say.
Whyte list the descendant cranks, if this is the spec level you have: https://whyte.bike/products/s150s
It depends on the version. The Trvative 7k is a gx crank with different stickers, the 6k is almost the same just a touch heavier. Maybe it's because they went dub? Dub is more expensive so a tractive 6k dub is about equivalent to a gx gxp price wise.
As above the small print always says the spec on the website may be changed. Usually because of stock shortage. Xtr being delayed so much caused quite a bit of this sort of thing.
I've recently been looking at a bike on the website of "a very well known bike shop" and the spec shown is 2019 while the bike is a 2018. Worth checking last year's spec.
https://whyte.bike/products/s150s-2018
Should be a GX in 2018 spec, but a Truvativ in 2019.
Possibly it was a last of the line bike and they had run out of the GX.
Then it all comes down to which version. The Truvative came out after gx so it would explain why the spec says gx but they later changed. The Truvative is prettier, so if you got a 7k gxp or a 6k or 7k dub Truvative I'd be happy with the swap. If you ended up with a 6k Truvative then they have cheapskated you a bit but tbh I can't tell the 6 & 7 series cranks apart so I doubt you'd ever know.