View Single Post
Old 09-02-16 | 05:22 PM
  #5  
ltxi
Senior Member
 
Joined: May 2015
Posts: 1,719
Likes: 1
From: Colorado
Originally Posted by Retro Grouch
Most component upgrades don't make economic sense.

In the case in point, at minimum you'll have to buy new shifters, a new cassette and a new chain. I assume that your gearing range will remain the same so all the expenditure will have bought you is one more step in the gearing.

Mebbe, mebbe not. I have a 2013 mixed group Tiagra and lower equipped Synapse I've been upgrading to full 6800. Total for parts somewhere north of $500. RS11 wheelset is a courtesy hand me down from an upgrade to another bike. As is the 11-32 Ultegra cassette. Has turned the Synapse into a whole better bike that I actually still want to ride vice using it as a put up with back-up.
ltxi is offline  
Reply