SRAM G8

In 2010, SRAM announced its new strategy to close down the factory in Schweinfurt, which had roots back to 1895.

Allegedly, the facility continued to operate as an R&D- and service-center, although all manufacturing there ceased.

In August 2012, SRAM announced its first product resulting from the new strategy, the G8.

[1] In 2013, after just 22 months of development, SRAM announced that manufacturing was to commence at the new facility in Dali, Taiwan.

[2] The G8 is lighter in weight than the i-Motion 9, and the internal mechanism is much less complicated.