Originally Posted by
Xherion
In terms of pros riding SRAM, you don't see it much in the peloton anymore because SRAM dropped sponsoring most pro teams. In 2015, SRAM only sponsored one World Tour team, AG2R. I don't think a lot of teams were happy riding SRAM, you were even seeing teams sponsored by SRAM dropping their groupsets and buying Shimano groupsets out of pocket. Their reputation in the pro peloton isn't that great, due to some very untimely chain drops.
When SRAM released their road components, they started paying teams to use it. When the stopped handing out checks, most teams went back to using Campy and Shimano because it works better.
SRAM sucks, but some teams will use it if they need the support($$$). I can't believe that some people actually buy that crap anymore.