Record -vs- Dura Ace

Triathlon Forum
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Slowman,
A few years back, you posted a Record -vs- Dura Ace article: www.slowtwitch.com/mainheadings/prodreview/components/campyvda.html).
Fast forward a few years … and I am wondering if you might ever consider providing an update to this topic, given the many technological changes since the Q1 2001 article.

The onslaught of Carbon Fiber, Compact Cranks, and 10Spd gearing (just to name a few) may provide the basis for some interesting debate. I wonder if you (or others) would come to the same conclusion(s) this time around.

_dave

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Here’s my take:

Record on a classic styled, light weight carbon (or other material) road-type bike. (Including exceptions for Colnago, Pinarello, and a few other “classic companies” making TT bikes.)

Dura-Ace on a Techno tri-bike with all the modern bell and whistles.

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Record has more techno bells and whistles than ShitmaNO. I love the fact that a buddy of mine had his Dura Ace 10 rear Der have a small part break…and he has to buy a whole new Der…classic.

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Doesn’t matter.
Shimano looks more techno.

Campy looks classic.

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But you know what’s funny… like everything else Japanese, even when a small part breaks Shimano stuff keeps on working, but typical Italian crap CampagNOlo ceases to function when something’s not adjusted properly, let alone breaks!

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Thats funny…I remeber riding on a broken chorus derauiler for an entire season. Replaced the part and then gave it to a friend, it worked fine before and great after I fixed it…so your statement is false.

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I don’t know about the statement being false. I had my campy derailleur shredded by road debris caught in my drive train. It ripped the derailleur right off the bike and did serious damage to the frame. The derailleur never worked right after that, so it was obviously a lousy design.

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I’m just try to say you cant make that generalization.

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I couldn’t have put it any better. Colnago C50 HM with Record and a Litespeed Blade with DA - i wish.

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Ah you have mighty good taste my friend - those are just about my 2 dream bikes for training/racing as well
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I put it down to this one thing, you can shift one to 5 cogs (or more) down with the Campy thumb shifter and you don’t have to whack the whole brake to shift up. Ergo has to go to shimano. Oh, I also like carbon and black things.

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Thank you. I’ll add a Litespeed Blue Ridge for commuting and touring and a Specialized S-Works Epic for off-road tris and XC racing.

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So where does the fact they the Campag Ergo levers can be re-built fit into your theory?

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Campag looks cooler. Period. I find it doesn’t have the subtlety changing of shimano but until our friends in the east get on the carbon fibre train so it matches my bike I’ll be staying with those stylish Italians across my fleet of rides…