Sram V Shimano

El Capitano
El Capitano Posts: 6,400
edited November 2010 in The Crudcatcher
Not only do you vote, but you need to put your justification (in true Crudcatcher Stylee) in a post...

Sram:
I've heard that various small furry animals are boiled to make the different anodising colours they use.

Shimano:
There components are proven to make your more attractive to the opposite sex.
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Comments

  • Sram:

    In my experience they keep working all conditions and are less prone to bad cable stretch issues.

    Shimano:

    Nicely built but show it to much sludge and shifting suffers to much, only great in nominal condition.

    --- Sram voter. but noth work mostly
  • joshtp
    joshtp Posts: 3,966
    Shimano - Users of shimano have bigger obviousess. FACT.

    Sram users are Ghey, and have green hair.
    I like bikes and stuff
  • Sram. Because XO makes me think of hugs and kisses.

    XTR sounds like an STI
  • 6 votes 4 posts, some people can not read bah.
  • Lack of option for "mixture of the 2" Poll FAIL!

    SRAM - It comes in pretty colours and "iz da bestist"

    Shimano - Made from the ground bones of puppies and orphans, commonly used by lucifer himself. Hitler had XT on his bike.
  • Lack of option for "mixture of the 2" Poll FAIL!

    SRAM - It comes in pretty colours and "iz da bestist"

    Shimano - Made from the ground bones of puppies and orphans, commonly used by lucifer himself. Hitler had XT on his bike.

    The 3rd reich beich?
  • :lol:
    That was actually quite funny MountainMonster!

    Good work!
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  • :lol:
    That was actually quite funny MountainMonster!

    Good work![/quote

    Glad to be of assistance! :lol:
  • .blitz
    .blitz Posts: 6,197
    Old farts like me tend to prefer Shimano but I think in the last few years SRAM have turned it round.

    SRAM function with Shimano styling gets my vote.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    sram: its what the sexy men use

    shimano: is what the gay men use.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    also, sram is from heaven

    shimano is the devils mum's suppository
  • psymon
    psymon Posts: 1,562
    SRAM: makes you impotent and infertile.


    Shimano: will make you a god damn sexual tyranosaurus.


    Fact.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    psymon wrote:
    SRAM: makes you impotent and infertile.


    Shimano: will make you a god damn sexual tyranosaurus.


    Fact.

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  • psymon
    psymon Posts: 1,562
    yes Blaine uses Shimano pussies!
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    no chance, that thing has sram gears on it, you can tell by the positive sounding engagement.
  • Gazlar
    Gazlar Posts: 8,083
    double post fail, where's the microshift option?? hmmm hmmm hmmm

    Shimano, big thumbs up, two way shift, win win every time

    Sram, , sounds like Borats junk and no two way shift = massive fail for me
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  • Got both on the AM bike, Shimano front derailleur and SRAM on the rear, they both do the job. The Kona had and commuter has Shimano and again, they work without any issues

    So why did I vote for SRAM? Because of those lovely things called "Avid"! I do like Avid brakes, yes I've tried Hayes and Shimano and they don't come close
    Hayes are like squeezing a stone, very wooden feeling levers, the Shimano units I tried were a lot better, a lot more feel than the Hayes levers.
    However, every time I place two fingers over the levers of my Code brakes, it's like gently squeezing a firm pert boob.. they just feel perfect..
  • Shimano is taking a bit of a caining today :p
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    its because most people in here arent rapists.
  • joshtp
    joshtp Posts: 3,966
    Sram is an acronym for Sam R - plainly a girls name

    ShiMANo contains the word MAN, because it's for MEN.

    when you click a Sram shifter it feels like it's going to break, snap inside or something, when you click a shimano shifter, it just clicks, lightly, smoothly and quickly, with a gentle, reassuringly click as the gear shifts.
    I like bikes and stuff
  • bennett_346
    bennett_346 Posts: 5,029
    SRAM because i have SRAM.

    In all seriousness i have mostly sram, but with an SLX front mech, and my god it feels like a rear mech when shifting even when caked in so much mud you cant see it!
  • Shimano over Sram because Sram make there cassettes out of melted hamster gonads. Also who's better at making small precision items - the Japanese or the yanks? Has to be the Japs!
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  • joshtp wrote:
    Sram is an acronym for Sam R - plainly a girls name

    Ironically (according to wiki) it is actually:
    wiki wrote:
    SRAM is an acronym comprising the names of its founders, Scott, Ray, and Sam, (where Ray is the middle name of company head Stan Day)

    but Sam was a bloke.
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  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,719
    I actually couldn't care less what's on my MTB. They both work perfectly well, and I've used both happily over the years.

    On my road bikes, I won't use Shimano because I hate the STIs. I'm intending, at some point, to give SRAM a try, but I'll probably still stick with Campagnolo for the ability to dump a load of gears in one go, in either direction. That's a big advantage when switching chainrings.
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    SRAM - for people who can't set their gears up or look after their cables.
  • supersonic wrote:
    SRAM - for people who can't set their gears up or look after their cables.

    +Potato & buckled SRAM components...
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    supersonic wrote:
    SRAM - for people who can't set their gears up or look after their cables.

    more like: sram for people who only want to set their gears once and not repeatedly everytime their cables get the inevitable ingress of dirt
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    I only set my mine once. Ergo you are not.