SRAM Rival/Shimano Ultegra shifters

pbt150
pbt150 Posts: 316
edited August 2009 in Road buying advice
I'm currently running Sora 8 speed on my Spec Allez, and I'd quite like to upgrade my groupset quite soon, starting with buying a new set of shifters (so I know which mechs I'll need when the time comes).

I've just got a new set of wheels with a Shimano hub so it's got to be either Shimano or SRAM when I get new shifters. What would people recommend?

Cheers,
pbt

P.S. I know I can't run the new shifters with the old bits on the gruppo, I'm going to buy the parts and install them all at once.
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Comments

  • synchronicity
    synchronicity Posts: 1,415
    Don't get Utegra unless it's the 2010 model.
    Shimano alloy levers have a BIG corrosion problem.
    vertebr.ae | precision braking & shifting
  • lochindaal
    lochindaal Posts: 475
    I have recently built a new bike up with SRAM Rival and think it's a great system. The double tap seems very natural and easy to use.

    £455 for full groupset from Fudge Cycles
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  • e999sam
    e999sam Posts: 426
    I've used 105 levers on my winter/commute bike for 2 years and have no corrosion or shifting problems.
  • thel33ter
    thel33ter Posts: 2,684
    If you just want shifters Campag ones work with shimano stuff. Its just the cassette that matters.
    And now you know, and knowing is half the battle
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  • synchronicity
    synchronicity Posts: 1,415
    e999sam wrote:
    I've used 105 levers on my winter/commute bike for 2 years and have no corrosion or shifting problems.

    Have you ridden them in hot weather?
    Sweat tends to make them corrode... although I think the latest generation levers are better than pre-2008
    vertebr.ae | precision braking & shifting
  • fungus_the_muffin_man
    fungus_the_muffin_man Posts: 1,608
    lochindaal wrote:
    I have recently built a new bike up with SRAM Rival and think it's a great system. The double tap seems very natural and easy to use.

    £455 for full groupset from Fudge Cycles

    £399 from JE James

    Even less if you go ebay.com
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  • lochindaal
    lochindaal Posts: 475
    I think the £399 is for the 2008 groupset.

    The Fudge Cycles is for 2010 (mine was 2009). There was a technology trickle down during 2009 and it significantly improved the group set from the reviews I read.
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    I've just gone straight from downtube shifters to Rival on my new Boardman, so I can't compare it with other groupsets, but my first impressions are that it's crisp, quick and natural to use - I just think mouse: single click for up, double click for down - apart from the oddity that if you're already in bottom gear and try to change down, you can only do a single click, which is a bit disconcerting when it moves you up - guess I deserve that for wanting to change down from 1st :cry:

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