Originally Posted by
THSdrummer
I can't help but feel that Bikebug and Ribble are the two best online retailers to purchase smoking deals on Shimano. I've gotten some smoking deals on Ribble for Assos, and they do have great prices on Campy every now and then. I just don't want to get into trouble for buying whole groupsets from over seas.
I might be purchasing a CX frameset, which means I'll need a new groupset. I'm thinking of upgrading my road groupset and putting my 6700 on the CX bike. Just not sure I want to run 6700 through the muck since I plan on beating it up. 6800 sounds great though. And it is not that terrible of a price.... Any experience with 6700? I was curious if you could compare 6700 to 6800.
I've now got 6700 on one CAAD10 and 6800 on the other. Despite many saying that 6700 is garbage - poor shifting, etc, I've never had any issues with my set-up and rate the 6700 no problems. Having said that, I reckon my 7800 (which the 6800 replaced) was marginally smoother than 6700 - shifting was a real breeze. 6800 is another step higher again in smoothness and the braking is fantastic.
6800 is certainly an improvement, so upgrading your road bike to that group and putting 6700 on your CX would give you a big cheesy grin, I'd reckon.
Good luck wth your choice.
Team Sarcasm - na, already got a 'number' of bikes, so will let this stuff go - already have a mate eyeing it off for his work/commute bike and it wil do the job very nicely.
cheers