(Edited title to hopefully get more reponses)
Due to various factors, not including the rants on this forum, I've decided to become a Campy guy.
Splashed out on an expensive frame equipped with cheapish Tagra/105/Ultegra mix with the intention to upgrade when my results dictated. Anyhow, I have been handing asses, spanking red-headed/lefthanded stepchildren, dropping bags of hammers and giving out first class tickets to bitch school left, right and centre and am ready to make the change.
I know there is some cross-compatability between Shimano and Campy 9s. I'm looking at getting some reduced price '03 Record9s. What would be my best plan of action in order to upgrade things in stages? I don't want to buy a whole gruppo at once. Rather, I'd like to start with shifters and a derailleur, stick them on myself (which may take a while), then add bits and pieces as and when.
Is this stage by stage approach do-able so that I can still ride while contemplating the next upgrade or am I dreaming?
Any tips or ideas for logical stages to progress by would be simply spiffing.
"Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parents of it, the mind. No glass so mirrors a man's form or likeness so true as his speech." - Ben Jonson, Timber, or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter.
Due to various factors, not including the rants on this forum, I've decided to become a Campy guy.
Splashed out on an expensive frame equipped with cheapish Tagra/105/Ultegra mix with the intention to upgrade when my results dictated. Anyhow, I have been handing asses, spanking red-headed/lefthanded stepchildren, dropping bags of hammers and giving out first class tickets to bitch school left, right and centre and am ready to make the change.
I know there is some cross-compatability between Shimano and Campy 9s. I'm looking at getting some reduced price '03 Record9s. What would be my best plan of action in order to upgrade things in stages? I don't want to buy a whole gruppo at once. Rather, I'd like to start with shifters and a derailleur, stick them on myself (which may take a while), then add bits and pieces as and when.
Is this stage by stage approach do-able so that I can still ride while contemplating the next upgrade or am I dreaming?
Any tips or ideas for logical stages to progress by would be simply spiffing.
"Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parents of it, the mind. No glass so mirrors a man's form or likeness so true as his speech." - Ben Jonson, Timber, or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter.