Which Groupset?

Both fugly but XTR works.

Well, it's just a standard Avid BB5 cable operated disc brakes, the highlight is the fact it's a road frame...

Wonder what hubs they are. Got a linky?

Both fugly but XTR works.

Have you seen a test where something breaks/does not work with Red?

Both fugly but XTR works.

MTB stuff should be fugly, and brutal looking. So the XTR looks great.

Wonder what hubs they are. Got a linky?

it's on Planet X's facebook, all they did was provided a photo and ask for discussion.

Ah yeah. Cheers. Comments are interesting.

Have you seen a test where something breaks/does not work with Red?

5 seconds of google..

http://cozybeehive.blogspot.com/2008/08/sram-red-chainring-failure.html

"But here's the word though, and I'm not sure if this is true or not - The bigger riders in Team Astana this year were using normal Dura Ace chainrings with their other SRAM Red gruppo."

MTB stuff should be fugly, and brutal looking. So the XTR looks great.

I'm not a fan. It's better than fugly 7900 but not much.

That's the old Red Hippy, which was known to have weedy chainrings.

You posted the new chainset- which I had seen no reports (yet!) of being similarly afflicted with gremlins.

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That's why you should never buy a Serotta.

Hippy will blame the Contis.

Have you seen a test where something breaks/does not work with Red?

I'm now on first name terms with a lot of the guys @ Sram Tech Centre. Should give you an idea of the amount of stuff that gets returned

Di2 Alfine anyone?

Edit: ah, already in the leccy shifting thread. Still, intreguing.

I'm getting very interested in the possibilities of electric shifting.

That's the old Red Hippy, which was known to have weedy chainrings and deraillers and brakes and everything else that should be functional in a groupset. You posted the new chainset- which I had seen no reports (yet!) of being similarly afflicted with gremlins.

Smallfurry posted the new chainset.

That's why you should never buy a Serotta.

madd LOLz

Hippy will blame the Contis.

I didn't even clock them. Those evil little bastard tyres will stop at nothing to ruin a ride.

I'm getting very interested in the possibilities of electric shifting.

I hope you have more luck with it than you have with anything else electronic.

By electronic you mean Android, I presume?

Phones, GPS, computers. Aren't your bathroom scales the only things still working?

The only thing that has been really unreliable has been my Android handset.

I'm getting very interested in the possibilities of electric shifting.

If you're anywhere near Finsbury Park - try Hadron cycles got a Ultegra di2 Pinarello set up. Had a good the other day nice, and the shifting in the drops is the really winner, but still it's a fair bit of money.

The only thing that has been really unreliable has been my Android handsets.

ftfy

OT: which androids have been unreliable? I am probably moving over to the dark side (from one of the other dark sides) when my contract is up for renewal in May.

Aren't pictures of bike parts breaking purely anecdotal? Surely anything will break with enough mis-use or even just a anomaly that leads to failure. Until there's a mass of evidence then it's just down to the individual user no?