Sram and Shimano

[buzz]

Why not just buy a Sram set up then?

Top tip. Clean up your Campag and sell it on ebay to some dewy-eyed Mamil who will pay over the odds.....Force is excellent, no need to go up to Red if you ask me!

[BeSpoke]

Actually, the manual tells a slightly different story... It seems that the **1 model converts SRAM and Campag 10 speed shifters and mechs http://jtekengineering.com/images/Pr...structions.PDF

Also some limited capability with the "shiftmate straight" http://jtekengineering.com/shiftmatestraight.php

[Eastway82]

Why not just buy a Sram set up then?

Top tip. Clean up your Campag and sell it on ebay to some dewy-eyed Mamil who will pay over the odds.....Force is excellent, no need to go up to Red if you ask me!

I think I qualify as a Mamil, but not usually dewy-eyed (except when the Triclorethane hits me when I'm trying to clean excess tub cement off my rims) and definitely never, ever pay over the odds - preferably a long way under! Everything I've got already came off Ebay, and having finally got both mine and Mrs E's race and training bikes all on Campag 10 so I can mix and match wheels between bikes and only need to keep one set of spare parts, I'm not about to branch off now and go back to having different wheel/cassette incompatibility problems (it was bad enough having a mix of 9 and 10spd, but at least they were both campag and had the same freehubs).
I'm just a bit curious about the SRAM double tap system and like the way they look so would be prepared to give them a go as an experiment if it could be done by changing just the shifters. Which BeSpoke's link appears to say is indeed possible. Damn, I was hoping it wouldn't be, which would save me some time and money! I suspect it'll be the latter factor which prevents me doing it, for a while at least.

[themadchemist]

I got my 1st go of SRAM on a rented Madone a couple of weeks ago.It was a little strange at 1st and may have contributed to my slipped chain.. but after a while, like any setup,it became 2nd nature and i actually like the double click now.Talking to a fellow rider who used sram,he said the shifters used a very small number of parts so were very reliable,not that i've noticed any problems with campag or shimano...
I'd certainly now look at sram when i want/need a new groupset.. although if i do get the colnago,it could be wrong to use anything but campag

[stepdot]

I use SRAM, previously had Shimano and have never used the modern Campag stuff so my comparison can only be between the first two but the SRAM is (in my opinion) streets ahead of Shimano. As the mad chemist (are you Doctor Bunhead by any chance, havent seem him on the TV for a while and i think i heard you say that you were temporarily out of work) says, any new setup feels odd at first but it soon becomes second nature.

[buzz]

I've been on Sram for 5 years, never had any problems, breakages or even signs of wear - have replaced the chain every 2000 miles and the sram red on the bike I sold in June must have had about 10,000 miles on it. Only issue I had with it is sometimes when I'm tired and I mean to double tap to shift to an easier gear I don't hit the lever hard enough and end up shifting up..... That's my fault not Srams!
Got Ultegra/105 on the winter bike, the shift is lighter but I doubt it will last as long - partly due to being used on crappy dirty and salty roads, but it just doesn't feel as tight or as solid.
On the new bike I built this summer I went for a mix of Force/old Red, didn't see the value in going for new Red.
I always rode Campag - didn't realise it was about 6 years ago since I did. (Was record on my good bike and chorus/athena on the 2nd bike back then)

[buzz]

I've been on Sram for 5 years, never had any problems, breakages or even signs of wear - have replaced the chain every 2000 miles and the sram red on the bike I sold in June must have had about 10,000 miles on it. Only issue I had is in the early days, sometimes when I was tired and I mean to double tap to shift to an easier gear I don't hit the lever hard enough and end up shifting up..... That's my fault not Srams!
Got Ultegra/105 on the winter bike, the shift is lighter but I doubt it will last as long - partly due to being used on crappy dirty and salty roads, but it just doesn't feel as tight or as solid.
On the new bike I built this summer I went for a mix of Force/old Red, didn't see the value in going for new Red.
I always rode Campag - didn't realise it was about 6 years ago since I did. (Was record on my good bike and chorus/athena on the 2nd bike back then)
No issue switching between good/2nd bike and Sram/Shimano at all now.

[NobbyK]

I suppose this isn't the right time to mention that Shimano 2300 is absolutely fabulous? No? I'll get me coat...

[Smokin_Joe]

You boys, you ain't a proper cyclist till you've mastered a Benelux rear mech with Huret friction shifters and a five speed block with straight cut teeth.

[allezhopper]

You boys, you ain't a proper cyclist till you've mastered a Benelux rear mech with Huret friction shifters and a five speed block with straight cut teeth.

Huret, now there's a name I forgot that I knew.