Road bike groupsets: A complete buyer’s guide
Road bike groupsets: A complete buyer’s guide
What is a groupset? What should you pick? Here’s your complete guide to this essential piece of road cycling kit.
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Very informative video, thanks guys.
well explained…Good job bro..detail and presise😊
hey bro i need to buy a new road bike for race but my budget is 300$ can u suggest me some????/
Way you hire !?!!!
You WRK for (GSN)
Shimano works well but feels cheap, i much prefer campagnolo, its more expensive but feels worth it
Educational
Sucking eggs or what
Buying a CAAD8 with Claris and upgrading to 105. Worth it? Or should I go for a better bike??
Don’t forget MicroShift
No one really needs a standard chainset unless you’re a pro
Hi, would you do a vid what a newbie needs to consider when thinking about upgrading a groupset? (E.g.: hub compatability etc.).
thank you. really help me to understand the basic component for a newbie. thumbs up
no groupset is worth over a $1000 just marketing BS ,they produced cheaply in asia for pennies on the dollar .Especially when you can buy complete bikes for the same price as the groupset it uses .
Nice explanation for newbie. Thanks a lot
Why does the bike change every time it zooms into his face lol
Finally a short and clear explanation of all this! Thanks!
great video
seriously considering buying a road bike after aprox one year on a hybrid and totally hooked on cycling. This video was very helpful as I’m a newbie and just starting to research all things road bike.
Great presenter.
When is your review of the Trek ALR 6 coming out? I am really intrigued by that aluminum machine.
A longer arm is easier to turn ,not harder, but it needs a bigger circle and more time for a full rotation
I am using Sora + Tiagra + Ultegra combinedly …
Rear derailleur & cassette, chain from Sora groupset…. Crank, Front derailleur from Tiagra … And Brakes are from Ultegra … Feeling weird! :p :p
Great information thanks.
Shorter crank is harder to turn than longer.
Good way to start, thank you.
I want Fabian Cancelera’s groupset that let’s him go uphill sitting down….
I have a triple 11 campy triple front a Chorus 11. These are not standard but it works for me. At 72 this this a great video. I started riding in 1969 and soon got a used bianchi Reynolds 531 with navo record 10s campy nuovo record
I design and build tools for aircraft industry. Been riding road bikes 50 plus years. I’ve designed a no hands shifting system for road bikes. Anybody interested. I would like thoughts and feedback
My question is a bit out of context but I am hoping someone can help. A friend of mine is looking at buying a new bike mainly for commuting to work. His challenge is that he is 6’5 with a 6’10 arm span and therefore finding a bike that is well suited to his build is difficult. On top of needing an XXL frame and possibly a 200mm crank what other considerations/questions should be asked at the bike store to get the right fit? Any help greatly appreciated.
3:32 Longer cranks are harder to turn, really? From what I’ve learnt about leverage, shouldn’t a shorter one be a lot harder? Just like trying to undo a tight nut with a socket – using your hand it will be near enough impossible, but you add a 6ft breaker bar.. Thing will pop right off with little to no effort.
!!!!!!!! DURA ACE GROUPSET 7900 SELLING FOR CHEAP!!!!!!!
TAKE BEFORE ITS GONE!!!!!
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I’ve got a specialized Allez quite old but the frame is great. so I took out the old tiagra flydeck 9 speed. and replace it whit a tiagra ultegra groupset, now the bike Is awesome
He should do the homework before presenting road bike components
The best video about groupsets. It covers all aspects and it’s well explain! Congrats!
You don’t need a long cage rear mech for current Shimano 11 speed to work with a 32 cassette
This was extremely helpful! Thanks!
Now the problem is … How to choose great parts within the brand names , like how to choose between one brand names sets?
I use 52/36 Ultegra on my Litespeed build 3 years ago. I wish that I had gone 50/34. These 54 year old legs strains to push 52 on straights so I’m mostly relegated to the smaller cog. Should have gone compact 50 Dura Ace.
get the Shimano 105 and you are GOOD TO GO! Saving $ for other perks. It’s the tried and true "work horse" of the cycling world!
what is the best shifter for Jones Loop Bar or surly moloko bar?
There is a trend over the past 30 years to add more and more rear sprockets (not ‘rings’) and we have gone from 6-speed to 11-speed. This change has been made almost entirely by shrinking the OUTSIDES of the chains, so the interior size of the teeth is exactly the same, but the cogs (front and rear) did get closer together. As a result, chains wear out far more quickly today than they did 20 years ago as they are more fragile (thinner) and stretch more easily. I frankly think that anything more than 18 gears becomes tedious to shift all the time – when I had a 27-speed I used to shift 2 gears at a time – but a racer needs to get into the perfect gear to maximize the watts of power output laid into the road.
My man must have 28 ex lovers. Can’t see any other reason for the thumbs down on this video.
8 speed 11 32 would have stupidly painful gaps. 13-26 and 52-36 is a great option for 8 speed.
…IT’S A BIKER “ GROUPIE”….LOL
great info. thank you
A good, well explained video. Thanks.
*i just put it all together. easy for the mechanically inclined✒>**share4.photo/RoadBike?Uへ ** have it on a bike trainer still breaking it in and looking forward to it. it seems pretty solid. looks cool, feels cool.*
Great info! just getting into the sport and this really helped clear some things up!
Very descriptive and methodical video. You covered all the basis in a clever and entertaining way. Thanks
at 3:50 is that cassette for time travel?..where can I get one mc fly?