So if you can afford 11 speed go for it. If you plan on using your bike a lot, and keeping it more than a year or two, then you will end up having to replace bits. The first things to go other than brake pads are normally the chain, cassette and rear derailleur. If you ride your bike during the winter, or commute on it then things will wear out more quickly as dirt from the roads wears away the parts. So if you regularly ride dirty gritty roads think about whether you really need that top of the range Dura-Ace setup.
Most of the road we sell use Shimano gears. The mechanical gears use a cable and springs to change the gears. The Di2 gears use electric switches which are much more precise and need less tuning to keep running smoothly. There are also disc and rim brake versions of most Shimano gears available. SRAM gears are less common than Shimano but do come fitted on a number of bikes we sell.
In particular SRAM gears are finding their way onto a lot of gravel, adventure and cyclocross bikes as they make 1x versions of most of their gears. This means using a single chainring at the front and a wider gear range at the back. The levers on SRAM gears do work slightly different from Shimano with a double-tap system for shifting which take a little bit of getting used to if you are used to Shimano.
Campagnolo are the classic Italian gear manufacturers. Responsible for many of the innovations that modern gears are based on Campagnolo still make cutting edge, race winning, equipment.
Italian road bikes have long been seen as something a bit special, something with a little extra class. If you are going to have an Italian road bike then it needs to come with Campagnolo.
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Think of yourself as the bike's engine and try to maintain a steady pedaling speed with your legs and change gears anytime your legs feel like they're being slowed down or spinning too rapidly.
Good cyclists are always shifting to keep their effort steady and easy and you should, too. And remember that you can't hurt the bike by shifting it! If you have any questions about all of this, just let us know and we'll explain on the phone or demonstrate here in the shop.
Shifting is fun! Shifting the right lever see the 6 illustrations below controls the rear derailleur and moves the chain onto the different cogs in the rear. Notice that there is one shift lever, the silver one tucked in behind the brake lever. You move this lever to shift and in only one direction, pushing it inward toward the center of the bike as follows: When you're just riding along, your hand can rest on the top of the lever called the "brake hood" or on the lower part of the handlebars.
In both positions it's easy to reach and operate the shift lever. When you feel like it's too hard to pedal and want to shift into an easier gear, push inward on the shift lever. A long push moves the rear derailleur, which in turn shifts the chain onto the next larger cog making it easier to pedal. The lever will click twice with each long push.
Push the lever again to shift into an easier gear, and so on. You move this lever to shift and in only one direction, pushing it inward toward the center of the bike as follows:. When you're just riding along, your hand can rest on the top of the lever called the "brake hood" or on the lower part of the handlebars. When you feel like it's too easy to pedal and you'd like a harder gear, push the shift lever inward again.
But, this time use a short push, which moves the rear derailleur, which in turn shifts the chain onto the next smaller cog making it harder to pedal. The lever will click once. SRAM's shift logic is simply more logical.
Photo: Caley Fretz VeloNews. It is, simply put, more logical than anything else out there. You already know how, but stay with me. Try here. Shimano: On the right side, press the bottom paddle for a harder gear and the upper button for an easier gear.
On the left side, push the upper button for a harder gear, and the lower paddle for an easier gear. SRAM eTap: Press the right button for a harder gear, the left button for an easier gear, and both for a front shift.
Fourty-eight percent fewer words for SRAM. Does this mean that eTap is percent less confusing? Anyone who has tried to teach a new cyclist how Shimano Di2 or Campagnolo EPS — or any mechanical system — shifts knows that none of the currently available groups are in any way intuitive.
When drivetrains were mechanical, the lack of intuitive controls was understandable. Engineers were hamstrung by the need to physically pull on derailleurs to make them move; shifters were spring-loaded ratchet mechanisms that took in and released actual cable, so all the shifting for one derailleur had to happen in the same place, under the same rubber hood.
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