Shimano or Campagnolo

Chrisw1980

O yes its time for the ugly question ive choosen the bike no its time to ask what groupset sir? Dura Ace and record, and Sram red are a bit out of my price range but what about the best of the rest Ultegra/105, Carbon Centaur/Cenataur maybe stretch to Chorus at a push, and Sram force/ Rival


Thanks for any experiences

Chris :shock:

inseine

You've not been on here long have you? You'll know what I mean in about 3000 posts time.....

dennisn

It has been decided, by a 10 to 1 margin, that Campy is best, or was it Shimano, wait, maybe it was Sram. In any case, now that you know the results you can buy with confidence.

Dennis Noward

roger_merriman

any chance of trying at least the levers out? might hate/love the way one system works or not.

ACMadone

Shimano, no contest

ACMadone

Oops pressed submit too soon. It's all about individual preference at the end of the day.See if you can test a bike with Shimano, SRAM or Campag and see which works the best for you.

fast as fupp

ethically. aesthetically, technologically it can only be campag

flasher

I have a bike with Shimano and a bike with Campag, I much prefer the Campag shifters but Shimano have a much better (IMO) range of cassettes.

vitesse169

I have shimano ultegra on my TT bike, & Campag Veloce on my road race bike. Can't really compare them as 1 is bar end shift, t'other is by ergo's. But I do prefer the Campag shifting......

Chicago Dave

nice pic of your bike.
is that 'flat stanley' next to it?

dilemna

I have both Ultegra 9 speed and Chorus STis ( sounds like a disease ). Both shift very well, except I prefer the Ultegra STi set up with brake and gear change levers together as opposed to seperate like Campag. My Chorus levers are a few years old now 2004 10 speed spec so maybe Campag have now copied Shimano set up? Campag everytime though for hubs. IMHO far superior than Shimano.

Mister W

Pick the one that you find most comfortable and the best in the range that you can afford.

roger_merriman

minor pluses and minus either way, shimano stuff tends to not be servicable yet campag sells almost every part. campag uses weaker brakes on the rear, and likened it to ABS which is one way of saying your all ham fisted lumps who can't modulate brakes, there are loads and loads of reasons to like and dislike very few are any thing but minor, go for the one you like, as my only roadie at the mo is downtube shifters i'm with shimano though i'm more campy leaning for newer bikes even if their ABS fluff anoys a little.

fast as fupp

ii have it on good authority that shimanoistas have horns and cloven hooves and worship the devil :twisted:

dennisn

fast as fupp wrote:

ii have it on good authority that shimanoistas have horns and cloven hooves and worship the devil :twisted:

You take that back or I'll put a curse on you.

Dennis Noward

fast as fupp

dennisn wrote:

fast as fupp wrote:

ii have it on good authority that shimanoistas have horns and cloven hooves and worship the devil :twisted:

You take that back or I'll put a curse on you.

Dennis Noward

im already cursed!

cyclingfury

You can always buy a combination of all three. I think it's marketed as Shimpagnoloram.