Originally Posted by
corrado33
Thank you. There's no way I'd put 105s on a commuting bike though. Maybe that though will change one day when I have more money to spend, but for now I feel like 105s are too nice to be used on a commuting bike. My current commuter has Soras, so almost anything will be an upgrade. I'm not saying they don't shift well (they do), but I can definitely tell the difference between them and my 105 bike. (It could also be that the 105 bike has very many fewer miles than the commuter bike, who knows.)
The point is not that you should get a 105 set but that you may or may not get the performance out of the Nexus 8 that you might be used to seeing, in comparison to non-IGH, geared bikes like the 105 or the Claris or the whatever.