Campag or Shimano

[PNuT]

campag is for people who dont puncture in timetrials
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[bonger]

Shimano is for people that want to pay less for lighter componants with the added bonus of a stiffer chainset, it's up to you.

[Adam]

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[erudite pete]

One of each, please.

[Matteo]

[Lucho]

Off topic but the 1989 Tour de France was won on a Mavic groupset

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[Matteo]

[stalwart]

Alex Coutts was out on the Edinburgh chaingang on Thursday and the Ultegra 10 speed groupset on his Flanders team bike is totally s*agged halfway through the season. Having had both I would say that Shimano has the edge with performance but Campag is without doubt better quality and more durable. The campag gearchange is just 'different' , ie more clunky than Shimano and not necessarily any worse.

Dura Ace is great stuff but Campag is much better further down the range. There is a huge gap between Dura Ace and Ultegra.

Campag have never got the hang of pedals like Shimano but their wheels are much better.

The oldest cycling argument there is with no right answer and it will probably always swing one way and then the other. If Campag suss this electric stuff they will probably get the edge again maybe ?
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[Animal]

I agree about the durability of Campag. My old training bike has had the same Veloce groupset on since I bought it and still runs fine.

I just don't like puching the small lever hard to change the rear mech down. It's easy to miss under stress.

Also, on Shimano, you can brake, and downshift the rear mech at the same time - great for that late braking, early acceleration out of corners. (not that I do much of that, but on occasion...)
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[Lucho]

I still use a campag Nuevo Record rear mech that's been on my bike since 1984. Extremely reliable and still looks damn good into the bargain. Campag really have style!

But to be fair, Shimon Dura-Ace attempted to break new ground in innovation in a wat Campag did not. On Ch4 Paul Sherwen interviewed Steve Bauer at the 1987 Tour de France Prologue in pre Glasnost Berlin about his Look Kevlar and the Shimano cranks arms were kevlar glued and pinned amd these cranks never went into mass production but they were quite ahead of their/there time and risky considering the glue between carbon fibre and alloy was unreliable at the time. My friend works in carbon fibre tech and he told me that glueing the stuff was tricky in the 1980s. Campag didn't carbon till when? late 1990s 2000?

[Badger]

ShimaNO

(apart from the pedals)
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[Megman]

I voted Campag, but I am saying nothing as it only ends up as an arguement. All my road bikes are Campag throughout

[joxster]

Campag everytime, except on the mountain bike where I couldn't bring myself to put on a super record rear mech, so it had to be Dura ace.
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[Billy Boy]

Shimano on the road, campag on the track.
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