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Originally Posted by agent pombero (Post 15634982)

Why do all of the top of the line grupos look so ugly? SRAM Red is ugly. Shimano Dura Ace is ugly. None of these cranksets would look good on a beautiful steel frame IMO, like Cielo/Co-Motion. Seems like these are designed primarily for carbon bikes.

The Campy Records look nice, not as space-age looking. The Athenas look amazing on steel frameshttp://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=317206

Tell us how you really feel!

While we're waiting let me say I am building up my repainted steel Romic with Rival whenever I get the frame back (which right now is anybody's guess). Carbon wheels. All for grins. We will see how ugly it is. It is too bad I am not a Campy cultist. How much easier life would be! No decisions. All would be pre-determined. Alas. Now where did I put that Kool-Aid?;)

Robert

One of my juniors snapped the paddle off of a Rival rear shifter last weekend, so I ordered a Force with zero-loss off Amazon; it showed up eighteen hours later! (gotta love Amazon free ship). Anyway, the zero-loss sure does make a difference. Shifting is actually crisper and faster.

And as a bonus, I dropped the broken one off at the LBS who was able to get SRAM to replace it, so we'll have a spare in case another one breaks. We won't have to wait to replace it, since that's a ten-minute job.