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@dan
Yeah agreed. Really when it comes down to it you want a groupset to be as invisible as possible, if you're not thinking about it then its doing its job. I find that anything below the 105 level just isnt worth it as i spent more time getting pissed off with things not performing to a basic standard, which obviously impacts on the amount of pleasure i get from riding. I dont want to blame my shortcommings on my bike!
*disclaimer, the lowest tier group i have is chorus! But thats a recent thing- had a mix of 7 speed shimano stuff on my merckx, but found that i would always ride my posh bike with record all the time (even in bad weather) instead because i hated the braking and the hoods on the merckx. Eventually doing this made one bike redundant and another expensive to maintain... Soo.....