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Anyone buy a new groupset lately and if so is there a US based store you recommend?
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I'm looking at replacing my entire groupset on the road bike (Felt Z5). Most if not all of the available groupsets are on Ebay. I'm worried about ordering from overseas but a couple of vendors have US based warehouses. This one seems pretty reasonable for price but would really like a vendor with an actual US based store and phone # I can call. I've looked everywhere for a new 105 groupset but Ebay seems to be the only place to go, at least from my internet searches.

Thanks!

Tom


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Re: Anyone buy a new groupset lately and if so is there a US based store you recommend? [CDA70.32021] [ In reply to ]
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Merlin Cycles in the UK.
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Re: Anyone buy a new groupset lately and if so is there a US based store you recommend? [jimatbeyond] [ In reply to ]
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jimatbeyond wrote:
Merlin Cycles in the UK.

Not at all recent, but I bought a 10-spd SRAM Red group from them around 10 years ago. Over the years have bought a few smaller items from them as well.

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Buy onEbay with PayPal and you should have nothing to worry about. PayPal has always taken care of any problems I have had
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Re: Anyone buy a new groupset lately and if so is there a US based store you recommend? [Jere B] [ In reply to ]
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Jere B wrote:
https://www.eurobikeparts.com/
+1 used them a year ago and my research at the time showed them to be goof

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They’re very knowledgeable, and they had parts when nobody else did, and they let you customize.
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jimatbeyond wrote:
Merlin Cycles in the UK.

I buy from them frequently.

Order on Sunday or Monday
Get the order by Thursday or Friday.

I'm in the Midwest USA
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That's where I usually look for a group. They're good about responding and I've been happy with them.
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Super! Thank you!
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I absolutely love biketiresdirect.com, great rewards program, quick shipping and plenty of inventory.
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I bought a Ultegra R8000 groupset (minus brakes) from Eurobikeparts yesterday. I found that the base price was not much cheaper than buying the individual parts off ebay. However, there is currently 15% off, which made it significantly cheaper.

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I'm so tired for the forced upgrade path that Shimano puts you through, and is only going to get worse with electronic 105.

For my road bike which I want to keep as easy as possible to self-maintain (not my TT bike though, that's for racing speed!) I'm going to go Microshift in the future if I have to swap out drivetrain parts, just to avoid this.
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