Originally Posted by
matt0ne
Your comments about 8-speed reassure me.. because I am about $1000 or more into an 8-speed upgrade of my Gios (just worked out that way) and I can't quite make the jump to 9 or 10. Could you expand on how 8-speed is perfect?
He was just saying things about how the 8speed setups worked so well and were built well and this was pretty much all the gearing you needed anything after that was "excessive" in his opinion, something along those lines.
As for the newer stuff, IMO really newer groupsets in the 2000's look funny on older steel bikes, imagine this on your GIOS:
I personally would think it'd be pretty weird.
It's kinda like putting $6000 BBS 20 inch 2011 rims on your 1989 boxy civic hatchback.
8 speed groups with brifters work great with steel bikes in my opinion because they're still styled really well and look fantastic and not too out of this world for the older 80s frames, but that's just me. I refused to own a bike with downtubes, lol.... I enjoy brifters too much...