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davejh666 said:
How does the Campagnolo gears compare to Shimano gears? By that I mean reliability etc. Only ever had bikes with Shimano on, so kind of a leap into the unknown!
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Campag stuff is much more rebuildable than shimano

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the shifting method is very different. You might like it, you might not.
 
[DOD]Asprilla;25374543 said:
They don't share everything, but there isn't a world of difference between Sportful NoRain and Castelli Nanoflex.

Sportful's parent company owns Castelli.
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Ended up going with the "total comfort" bib tight after reading lots of positive reviews, hopefully will keep me warm this weekend!
 
The Merida does looks like good value for the money with majority of the running kit being Shimano 105 looks like a decent buy to me the only really weakness is maybe the wheels might be a bit heavy but that's to be exspected at this price point. The Bianchi linked above does look nice but comes with pretty budget running kit.
 
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Cheers guys. Might be an impossible question to answer, but could someone try to explain the difference between the two shifting methods? What is different about it?
 
davejh666 said:
Cheers guys. Might be an impossible question to answer, but could someone try to explain the difference between the two shifting methods? What is different about it?
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well, I know with Shimano you move the lever until it clicks down a gear, and you can continue to move it and it will click again and change gear, but with SRAM you "double tap" the lever to change gear
 
Shimano uses the brake lever as a shift lever as well (pull it to brake, push it to the side to shift).
Campag has separate levers for shifting and brakes.

Both shift in the same way, one lever shifts up and can move more than 1 gear at a time, the other lever clicks down 1 gear at a time.
They have different shaped hoods as well.
Neither is better than the other and you'll get used to whichever you choose.
 
Shimano are phasing out the hood button in favour of dual levers up and down the range.

Campagnolo still offer both systems, I think. Their system with the button is more advanced though, and allows you to shift multiple gears. On some systems you can move the entire range of the cassette with one full push of the button. EDIT: Yep, current Super Record comes with ergo levers with the hood button, which can shift up 3 or down 5 with one push of the lever or button respectively.

Sram doubletap has one lever behind the brake lever. Pushing partway changes up, pushing all the way changes down, or maybe vice versa, I forget. I think asprilla is one of the few sram adherents here.
 
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Vonhelmet said:
Campagnolo still offer both systems, I think. Their system with the button is more advanced though, and allows you to shift multiple gears. On some systems you can move the entire range of the cassette with one full push of the button.
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All campag stuff has the downshift button in the inside of the hoods and the upshift lever behind the brake lever.

All new shimano stuff has the downshift lever behind the brake lever and the upshift lever is the brake lever itself.

Both campag and shimano will shift multiple gears when shifting up to larger sprockets and both click down a single gear at a time in the other direction.
 
Ah, so Campagnolo has got a brake lever, a shift lever and the shift button. It's hard to tell from some of the pictures knocking about on the web.
 
Campag Ultrashift - Chorus, Record, Super Record - lever behind the brake lever moves it up the cassette, button moves it down MULTIPLE sprockets (up to 5 as mentioned).
Campag Powershift - Athena, Centaur, Veloce - lever as above, button only shifts one sprocket per press.

SRAM - lever behind the brake lever only, small press moves it down a gear, press futher in to move up (if i recall correctly about 3 at a time max).

Shimano - as mentioned previously although older Sora (8 speed) had a button that cant be reached form the drops to move down the cassette so not ideal.

I've got/had all 3 systems although not used Powershift (my old Campag 9 speed Mirage has Ultrashift).
 
[DOD]Asprilla;25375246 said:
Merida build Specialized's bikes so they are pretty good, they just don't carry label tax.
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This.
Merida are not a new company, they have just switched focus recently from making OEM stuff for other manufacturers to building their own bikes.

Lampre have been riding merida bikes this year.
 
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