Thread: Groupset choices - who is a sheep around here?

shimano on all my bikes.

XTR/Saint on the dh bike
XTR/XT on the xc bike.

Have run sram but not a fan()


I have riden a roadie with campag record and was very impressed.

ben...

Ive always had shimano stuff and never had cause to complain.....

Shimano.

Have full XT inc wheels, on my current bike. Have never had any issues. Tried sram on a couple of bikes but never fell in love. Rode a mates bike with sram once and snapped his X0 rear derailleur when a stick got caught it it., cost me a packet to replace the carbon cage. Had sticks go into shimano derailleurs and only ever broke the hanger on the bike.

lotsa sheep eh? :P

no surprise though, 9/10 store bought bikes must have shimano unless they are super cheapies which are no name...

there again, all respondents so far seem to be mountain bike based...

like Shimano but also very happy with SRAM. MTB.

Originally Posted by EchiDna

no surprise though, 9/10 store bought bikes must have shimano unless they are super cheapies which are no name...

From what I've seen of MTB a fair majority of anything over $1000 comes with Sram. About 90% of bikes under $1000 would have shimano the rest would have a some Sram X4/5 or some SR Suntour stuff.

Road bikes are a different story, 9/10 bikes from a store will have Shimano. Main reason would be that in your volume sellers under about $2500 Sram don't really have much to offer and From memory Bianchi is about the only manufacturer that specs Campag across its full range.

I've had both Record, Chorus and Dura Ace. Using DA now - love it, loved Record too though. Functionally, very little separating them, if anything. Especially between Chorus and Record.

I'm going to nominate DA (Shimano) - simply because the shifters fit my hands slightly better.

I had campagnolo hubs on my BMX bike many years ago.

However campagnolo MTB groupsets were crap and AFAIK they stopped production.

You seem to have missed many of the mtb manufacturers...
My DH/FR bike has Race Face cranks and chainrings (custom bash guard), XT mechs and shifters (rear mech soon to be replaced with Sram), XT cassette and Sram chain.