I LOVE Campag 10 speed ultrashift and just prefer it to Shimano's offerings, it works great and I have never felt the need to go with more recent groups. I have it in Record, Chorus and Centaur variants on over a dozen bikes and within the next month should click past 100,000 miles on Campag since I started GPX'ing my rides a dozen or so years ago. So Campag has served me served me VERY well. I don'k think I've ever had a part fail, the derailleurs seem to last forever and are fit and forget. I've never had any problems with any square taper or Ultratorque cranks. Remind me how many millions of Shimano cranks have been recalled in the last few years?

I have rebuilt a set of shifters, after they'd done over 25,000 miles at the time. It was a bit nerve wracking and took a lot longer than the Campagnolo mechanic on the videos, but they are good as new and those shifters are still going strong. I like knowing how things work and if they're fine for my needs, and can be kept going, why spend 4k on a new groupset that looks hideous on my bikes and has neglible my world benefits, and comes in boring black or Shimano's trademark dumpster grey., no thanks. And no I don't want to have to charge my bike shifters up ever either.

Sadly Campagnolo has been continually less visually appealing since 10 speed, they at least need to start making things beautiful again. Rear derailleurs these days are the size of actual cable cars, truly gopping.

By all means let the marketing department convince you you need the latest and greatest all bells and whistles kit to have a positive or fast experience, you don't. I'm never left behind by mates riding more modern carbon bikes. If you feel the latest aero fanny pack will help you smash out 384th place on some sportive, go at it. I'd rather work on the motor and , god forbid, consume less.I hope they survive, but if not ebay will undoubtedly keep me going for years to come, I'm not worried.

And I feel a 'make Campagnolo beautiful again'' cap and t-shirt could be a nice little earner for them to help keep the lights on