Originally Posted by
mcours2006
I've only used Sora 3500. It's not even as nice, in terms of feel, as the old 5700...but maybe I'm just biased against the hideous cable-coming-out-of-the-shifter thing.
My rear cassette on the Sora is a wide 11-32, so lots of big gaps. Eleven-speed 11-32 would take care of some of those gaps.
In the 9sp 11-32 range there are more than one cog configuration. The new HG201 11-32 have moved the gaps from mostly the middle cogs to the small cogs, meaning if you dont much use the samller cogs even a 9sp 11-32 should be fine.