Which Groupset?

Or even the Spyres, but to be honest, decent compressionless housing make a big difference, even with SRAM.

The thing is. Those shifters of Shimano. Are all kinds of awesome.

They allow you to grip the drops solidly, With just the tip of the finger on the lever, when sprinting. Thus allowing you to use their superior shifting to actually win a sprint rather than drop you into the 11T when your puny Campag legs obviously can't handle it. With very little hand movement.

They allow you to stay on the tops when cresting a Climb, and shift up With Your little finger.

ftfy

You forget to replace Smallfurry with hippy on that quote.

and shimano with sram.

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The thing is. Those shifters of Shimano. Are all kinds of awesome.

They allow you to grip the drops solidly, With just the tip of the finger on the lever, when sprinting. Thus allowing you to use their superior shifting to actually win a sprint rather than drop you into the 11T when your puny Campag legs obviously can't handle it. With very little hand movement.

They allow you to stay on the tops when cresting a Climb, and shift up With Your little finger.

The thing is. Those silly looking thumb shifters of Campag. Are all kinds of awesome.

They allow you to grip the drops solidly, With just the tip of the thumb on the lever, when sprinting. Thus allowing you to dump half of the cassette With very little hand movement.

They allow you to stay on the tops when cresting a Climb, and shift up With Your little finger.

The thing is. SRAM shifters are all kinds of awesome.

They allow you to shift without the entire levers thrown to the other side of the world just to shift up, having only one button make it more intuitive to get on with, rather than having a complicated system that required more hand movement to shift up and down.

They allow you to stay on the tops when cresting a Climb, and shift up With Your little finger.

ftfy, now shut up will yer?

Since when has the choice of groupset made any difference to the outcome of a race?

"And then, most of all, in the last 30km my gears weren’t working." - Tom Boonen, Roubaix Velodrome 14-04-14

Mr Boonen, I will remind you that anecdotes are not evidence that Sram is shite.

"And then, most of all, in the last 30km my legs weren’t working." - Tom Boonen, Roubaix Velodrome 14-04-14

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I rode the P-R with sram and both my legs and gears were working well into the final 30km.
me and my bike > tom and his bike.

ftfy

The performance argument is bollocks anyway.

I just beat my PB on a undulating 30km Strava loop I made. Great stuff. Except it was on my flexy steel fixie. Beating a time set on my pimped SR equiped 11 speed road bike.

I can now only justify my buying by admitting I simply like shiney bike parts.

There was definitly a campag user slapping his right shifter around and getting pissed off at P-R. Been there myself, nearing the top of a big Climb. I neglected to bring a team car With spare bikes though.

(The real reason you need to be Rich to run campag)

^^ When a steel frame flexes the power is stored in the tubes and then springs back, thus eliminating the crank deadspot and increasing your overall power output. #explained

The Climbs are short and punchy. So being on 48:16 fixed, makes you try and smash them, so you can actually get over them. I hit a 2014 heart rate record on one of them.

Still. I must be pretty shit at gears.

2014 is a monster heart rate. are you a small rodent, perchance?

^^ when a steel frame flexes the power is stored in the tubes and then springs back, thus eliminating the crank deadspot and increasing your overall power output. #explained

lol

I rode the P-R with sram and both my legs and gears were working well into the final 30km.
me and my bike > tom and his bike.

He does have form though...

The performance argument is bollocks anyway.
I just beat my PB on a undulating 30km Strava loop I made. Great stuff. Except it was on my flexy steel fixie. Beating a time set on my pimped SR equiped 11 speed road bike.
I can now only justify my buying by admitting I simply like shiney bike parts.

What performance argument? I argue in favour of functionality and durability. No point having the lightest groupset if it spits your chain out half way up a mountain.. or..

how is that even possible?!

^^ When a steel frame flexes the power is stored in the tubes and then springs back, thus eliminating the crank deadspot and increasing your overall power output. #explained

Anyone wanna buy a Shiv? I'm bringing the Condor out of retirement.

2014 is a monster heart rate. are you a small rodent, perchance?

I was being shy.

It was 176bpm. I'm 39 in a few months so thats pretty big for me.

I don't want to get old

What performance argument? I argue in favour of functionality and durability. No point having the lightest groupset if it spits your chain out half way up a mountain.. or..

They really should be doing P-R on fixies.

Hippy - Boonen is clearly a massive thrasher. A thrasher has the power to break even anything, even Shimano.

^^ When a steel frame flexes the power is stored in the tubes and then springs back, thus eliminating the crank deadspot and increasing your overall power output. #explained

My frame has bb shell cutouts - so much of the stored power leaks out. :(

Hippy - Boonen is clearly a massive thrasher. A thrasher has the power to break even anything, even Shimano.

Meh. His peak power ain't all that. Besides he didn't break any Shimano.