Shimano vs Sram

[bikeworkshop]

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@SDGshox setup reminds me of a historical battle.
At the time we thought shimano were designing their brake levers to make them awkward to use with gripshift by moving the pivot towards the centre of the bar.

Sram levers of the period never really took off round us, felt a bit horrible and plasticky in comparison.

And where's gripshift now?

 

[FluffyChicken]

SRAM is alive and well, gripshift are introducing youngster to mountain biking. Dia-Compe used their nice SS7 style brakes and extended them to stay fine with GripShift or pretty much integrate with GripShift. It's a shame when Marin specced them that they chose to use the PC7's with their terrible Marin Lite cantilevers and not something that worked.

They're still there at all levels, it's just that the electronic shifter has the limelight and an electric button or two or even no feel touch pads are the 'best new thing'. And the way auto shifting is coming along, there be none at all for most users.

https://www.sram.com/en/sram/mounta...-shifters?filters=&sort=PriceHighToLow&page=1

 

[bikeworkshop]

It's not that gripshift doesn't exist, it's just that having a couple of dozen bikes through the door every day, i can't remember seeing any lately.

i see more di2 and fixies

 

[Imlach]

Shimano

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[bikeworkshop]

At the same price point, revoshift feels nicer, and seems to have held on a little better.
Cold hands are a problem

 

[Imlach]

Shimano made the gripshift good.