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Old 07-10-10 | 05:55 PM
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thirdgenbird
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Originally Posted by EjustE
Nope

At least in the late 70s and on the 600 group in all of its iterrations was the second most expensive (save for one-and-a-half year when Sante was alive) and the second rated Shimano road group, after Dura Ace. 600AX, 600EX and the transitionary long lived 64xx group that was born in the late 80s as 600EX Ultegra, then the EX was lost and by the mid 90s the 600 went away.

Back to the OPs question. Those rankings are about right, but the mid-late 80s Campy groups are missing. Those were from top to bottom (and stayed close to that until the mid 90s) :

Record (lots of people call it C-Record, but "C" stands for "Corsa" = road, to differentiate it from "Pista" = track, but the group's name is Record )
Chorus
Athena
Victory/Veloce
Junk (Eucl
id, Mirage, Xenon)

+1 to miamijim's comment about a rudimentary Shimano SIS group (like 105 or even Exage) was better in shifting and braking than any of those, from 1987 to about 1992. Then Campy introduced Ergos. Game over as far as shifting went, but Shimano still did have the advantage in braking for a good decade...
i thought the tricolor brifters said ultegra 600 on them... cut me some slack,, i was pretty young at the time

edit:

i may have been 6, but my memory of my mom triathlon racer is pretty vivid:

ultegra 600

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