Originally Posted by
eippo1
Cool, I'll take a closer look at it later. I do have to say that the front derailleur is quite revolutionary and I think well worth any sort of wait. What do you mean behind? By not doing electronic? Plenty of cyclists have no desire for electronic and most people who buy Campy and Shimano don't either. Electronic of course was revolutionary, but with only 4% of customers actually riding it makes it kind of a halo item. A super high end product just to say that they can do it and have it justify high costs.
Red is attainable my many and I bet you the percentage of people riding the new Red will be much higher than people riding electronic groups.
He means no electronic shifting and no 11-speed. The other two main stream companies are continuing to push the limits of performance, while SRAM is just working on fixing the things people have been complaining about for years. Their new cassette and FD are evidence of this. The ONLY impressive/progressive thing coming from SRAM right now is their new Red power meter crankset, and that's based only on the fact that it's lightweight.