5DEV Shredville Mounts: $199 to Exploit Leadville's Drop-Bar Ban
5DEV's $199 Shredville Mounts add road hoods to MTB bars—a clever Leadville loophole for aero gains without drop bars. Worth it for time-chasers only.
5DEV's Shredville Mounts exist because Leadville banned drop bars in 2025—and because three riders missed the sub-9-hour big buckle by six seconds or less. The premise: clamp road-style brake hoods onto your MTB's 22.2mm handlebar, get an aero position without technically running drops, and keep full brake access from both hand positions. At 135g for the pair and $199, you're paying a premium for what amounts to a machined aluminum loophole. SRAM users can program their hood blips to control a dropper post, which is genuinely clever integration if you're already deep in the wireless ecosystem.
The real question is how narrow your use case has to be before this makes sense. If you're chasing a Leadville buckle or racing long MTB events where aero matters and drops are banned, the math pencils out—seconds add up over 100 miles at altitude. For everyone else, it's a solution hunting for a problem. The mounts won't help your Tuesday night group ride, and they add cockpit complexity you'll have to explain to every rider who glances at your bars. But for the obsessive few grinding toward a time cutoff, four seconds is four seconds.
