Shimano’s new Tiagra 4700 groupset is important and here’s why
Shimano’s road groupset evolution strategy is one of trickle down that starts with Dura Ace at the top of the tree. The trickle down effect sees ideas and designs from the top tier work their way down the price points. Since Dura Ace 9000 was released, many of the same features and benefits have been […]
Shimano 105 5800 – big news for lots of us
Unless you’ve not been paying attention for the last day or so, you’ll have no doubt heard the announcement of the new generation of Shimano’s 105 groupset that will launch in the second half of 2014. I think it’s fantastic news for those of us who don’t have as much money as we’d ideally like […]
Shimano Ultegra 6800 11 speed announced – first thoughts
Yesterday Shimano released the details on their second tier groupset and I think it’s important news. In a way the current iteration of Ultegra (6700) and the recently replaced Dura Ace (7900) were a bit of a miss for Shimano as it appeared that they perhaps focussed on developing Di2. Both of these “older” groupsets […]