Hi all, Looking at getting a new aero road bike and likely to be SRAM group set. I’ve only ever had Shimano (generally tiagra) but have used Sram couple of times on friends’ bikes. The new bike can have either Sram rival or force full groupset, difference is extra £200 for Force. Is it worth it? I…

I have Rival hydro 1x and don’t have any problem with it. It just works :slight_smile: and breaks work maybe better than DA.

[image] RobertSims: Shimano (say 11 speed 105) chainset work fine with otherwise all Sram force or rival (2x11 speed) group set, so Sram shifters and FD? I believe the pull ratios for Shimano and SRAM are different, so wouldn’t mix/match shifters from one with the other manufacturer’s deraill…

[image] wysbf2: I believe the pull ratios for Shimano and SRAM are different, so wouldn’t mix/match shifters from one with the other manufacturer’s derailleurs. The shifters and derailleurs would both be SRAM, just crankset would be shimano

What @craigmanning said above - I have both and don’t think there is a noticable difference in shifting or braking - it’s more important that the derailleurs are set up properly. The Force cranks are a good deal lighter than the Rival ones, so that’s worth having. I think you should be ok with Shim…

[image] craigmanning: The big difference in Rival has an aluminum crank and Force is carbon…worth the extra $. Can’t decide if worth extra cash or not. Much differencei n feel etc?

[image] splash: (The Shimano cranks are way uglier and you need more tools to install, so no idea why you would want to do that anyway I have a left arm crank power meter so if I change to a Shimano crankset I can put my PM on it when I want (I swap my PM between my different bikes as all res…

That makes sense, I do the same with my Stages. Also PMs for shimano tend to be cheaper.

No difference in feel, just looks carbon and is lighter. I changed my force cranks for a rival ones once because that was cheaper than new chainrings and matched my old PM. I’ve niw gone back to the carbon one, but don’t notice any difference when riding.

But if most of weight difference is crankset…and I change that to Shimano anyway…

In that case, go with rival, you’re not missing anything really. You can also mix and match later and eg put a force derailleur or calipers on.

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RobertSims March 21, 2021, 7:03pm 5

The shifters and derailleurs would both be SRAM, just crankset would be shimano

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