Originally Posted by sced

I recently bought the 09 Centaur Carbon group for my wife's bike from TotalCycling in the UK for about $750 shipped and it is extremely nice looking and seems to function perfectly. It's supposedly easy to remove the black anodizing (if not paint?) from the chain rings if one doesn't like black. I have 07 Record on one of my bikes and it's nice too but was more than 2x the price. These days, functionally what is one buying for all that extra money?