It’s been a couple weeks, but I figured I should capture some
notes from my first weekend of shopping for a new bike and doing test
rides. Maybe this will be useful to you, maybe not.
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Having ridden SRAM for a couple of years now, I think that part of it is that you actually adjust to some of the things that you were tripping over. And the area where it excels is when you're racing or riding aggressively in the drops and want to be able to do really quick shifts. And the weight is super nice. But I'm now riding mechanical Ultegra and it works just fine as well. I'm not sure that you can really go wrong with any of the mechanical groups at this point. DI2 is super duper nice but I couldn't justify the cost when I got my new road bike earlier this year
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Interesting observation re wheelsets influencing comfort. I wish I had more opportunity to evaluate wheelsets; all I really know is that I destroy Ultegra wheels, and my Ksyrium SLs are nice, but I've also broken them. I did ride a set of Bontragers on 2011 PMC that were nice. But if you have insight on light-but-bulletproof wheels, I'd love suggestions.
I didn't think about it until I started switching wheelsets between bikes.
Ksyriums are the generally accepted relatively strong and relatively light factory wheel. Recommendations beyond that tend to be to get a set of handbuilt wheels from a good builder and not to skimp on the spoke count. You don't end up with an ultra lightweight 1350 gram wheelset but you can get in the 1500-1600 gram range pretty easily now
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Ksyriums are the generally accepted relatively strong and relatively light factory wheel. Recommendations beyond that tend to be to get a set of handbuilt wheels from a good builder and not to skimp on the spoke count. You don't end up with an ultra lightweight 1350 gram wheelset but you can get in the 1500-1600 gram range pretty easily now
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