Garbaruk
Garbaruk makes cassettes, cranksets, chainrings, derailleur cages and pulleys in Poland, from machining to anodising. A family business that does everything under one roof, near Kraków.
Garbaruk makes cassettes, cranksets, chainrings, derailleur cages and pulleys in Poland, from machining to anodising. A family business that does everything under one roof, near Kraków.
Garbaruk began in the mid-2000s, in Ukraine, in the small workshop of brothers Valerii and Yurii Garbaruk, who designed and repaired carbon frames and parts there. The turning point came in 2014: a first CNC machine, bought to machine a 104BCD chainring. Then came cassettes, cranksets and accessories. In 2019, the family moved the company to Kraków, Poland, where it has produced ever since.
At Garbaruk, engineering, machining and anodising are done in-house, at the factory near Kraków. That is what makes it possible to carry eight colours from the cassette right through to the derailleur pulleys. The cranks are a good example: each one starts as two shells machined from 7075-T651 aluminium, joined to make a hollow arm, to approach the weight of carbon while keeping the reliability of metal. The warranty runs for 2 years; normal wear of the aluminium and the anodising, where the chain works, is not covered.
The GEN2.0 cassettes split the materials: the cogs are machined from chromoly steel, and only the 52-tooth, in 7075-T651 aluminium, carries the colour. On a SRAM XPLR groupset designed for a 10-46, the GEN2.0 XPLR goes up to 52 teeth for 343 g. With a 40-tooth chainring and a 700 × 45 tyre, one pedal revolution covers 1.72 m in the 52, against 1.95 m in the 46: 22 cm less on every turn, at the same cadence. The Red XPLR then needs the Garbaruk cage, while Rival and Force keep their own.
To build a drivetrain in a single colour, part by part, with components machined and anodised in the same place. On gravel, the Road/Gravel crankset matches the XPLR cassette. On the MTB, the GEN2.0 T-Type keeps the 10-52 range of an Eagle Transmission groupset for 340 g, with the matching XC crankset.
In Poland, at the Garbaruk factory near Kraków, where the company moved in 2019. Machining and anodising are done in-house.
With the GEN2.0 T-Type, yes, on Eagle Transmission groupsets, from XX SL to Eagle 70. With the GEN2.0 XPLR too, on Rival and Force XPLR; Red XPLR needs the Garbaruk cage to clear the 52-tooth cog.
2 years from shipping, against defects. Normal wear of the aluminium and the anodising is not covered, nor are impacts, such as a chainring hitting a rock.