Horze wrote:Homemade groupset is the most favorite.
DA a close second.
Do tell!!!
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my answer?
I want to like Rotor but I, like everyone else, is going to have to reserve judgement until they ride it.
Just checked out the Magura TT brakes, and they got the ergonomics all weird, which was pretty distracting, so a ride on the rotor is definitely going to be necessary to figure that one out.
Honestly i think Campy hit it out of the park with so much of the Record 10s group back in the day and then just sat on it far too long selling it to people who were afraid of the look of progress that they forgot how to do it right.
However despite how ugly the 11s levers are they are hella comfy. I've never understood why people are so accommodating of Shimano's bizarre obsession with brake levers that go the wrong way, but i'll give them one thing, they know how to put a crank together out of aluminium. I've been impressed at SRAM's willingness to always undercut the other two on a weight:price basis and be on top of what's new, but that also comes with the not insignificant habit of putting out insufficiently well developed product in mass numbers. Unreliable finish coat anyone? I also like how Shimano approaches structural design of front deraileurs, SRAM's extra cable pull, Campagnolo's much more attentive machining and their more solid brakes. I hate the Skeleton brakes though, squidgy, squishy and pointlessly ugly. I like the newer Shimano brakes with the symetrical pivots, they fixed something that has been driving me nuts for a decade, but they couldn't be bothered building them elegantly.
/ramblings of an intemperate but experienced mechanic and discriminating singlespeeder who can't bear faults in things that are suppose to make his life easier.
So, if i had to buy a complete off the shelf groupo from your list in some hypothetical scenario, and it was for my own use? Super Record mechanical. Why? For my money, better ergonomics, better bearings, more elegant crank, all carbon derailleur because why not(?) and no goddamn wires or batteries on my bicycle! Maybe if i was a racer and i was building up a new bike every year something else on the list might be interesting, but not for the price a modern top of the line groupset goes for, that's a long term investment, in my experience Campy's the place to put investment money, Shimano may still make 8 and 9 speed chains, but there are no replacement parts for far too many things they made, and SRAM just wears out too damn quick, to put it very mildly.