Trading up - Ultegra 6700 to DA 7900 (groupset)

fat bloke

If a guy wanted to do the above to a bike, would he be... <ahem> hairy aped in the wallet department, or could you do it for reasonable money? The ultegra is lightly used, but in very very good nick.

There are a few sort-of-ish dealers on here who seem to have derailleurs and groupsets and chainsets of various sorts at various times, would any of em like to quote me happy?

omri

whats the mileage on that and would you be looking at selling rather than trading ?

Beasty

No "dealers" allowed, and if you want to get some "quotes" from anyone who may have surplus gear, I'm moving this thread to the cycling adverts section

Thanks

Beasty

fat bloke

omri wrote: »

whats the mileage on that and would you be looking at selling rather than trading ?

-It's on the wife's race bike from last season, but as it turned out she didn't race much at all on it. If there's a 1000km on it I'd be surprised. Trading tbh would be handier cos I'm a spanner with a spanner, so it'd be much handier if someone would take the bike off me and hand it back all dura-ace'd up.

DirkVoodoo

I'm not really sure if you will get much benefit tbh, the gap between Dura Ace and Ultegra has narrowed somewhat and the cost would really make me question why you would ditch a nearly new groupset.

levitronix

From 800-900 for full new DA group set on german ebay, mostly removed from new bikes ..

I never noticed a difference on shifting but a big difference on the brakes, ran the same pads on 105 and ultegra as DA

levitronix

http://cgi.ebay.de/Shimano-Dura-Ace-7900-2x10-Gruppe-ohne-Kurbelsatz-NEU-/150554435862?pt=Sport_Radsport_Fahrradteile&hash=item230dbe6116

There you go its a steal ... jedi sports ebay store !!!

Lumen

Forget ordinary Dura Ace, it's nineteenth century tech and too functionally similar to what you have already.

You need Di2.

Go on, it'll make your Zipps happy.

omri

levitronix wrote: »

http://cgi.ebay.de/Shimano-Dura-Ace-7900-2x10-Gruppe-ohne-Kurbelsatz-NEU-/150554435862?pt=Sport_Radsport_Fahrradteile&hash=item230dbe6116

There you go its a steal ... jedi sports ebay store !!!

How on earth this is so cheap comparing to 1200+ prices I've seen on the net

spyderski

Errr...... its not. It doesn't include the crankset, which is at least €300

omri

spyderski wrote: »

Errr...... its not. It doesn't include the crankset, which is at least €300

there you go...

fat bloke

Lumen wrote: »

Forget ordinary Dura Ace, it's nineteenth century tech and too functionally similar to what you have already.

You need Di2.

Go on, it'll make your Zipps happy.

Hmmm. Would be nice alright. It's not for me though. The wife has a lovely Cervelo and it deserves DA. I built it up for her and I'm sorry since that I cheaped out on Ultegra.

sy

Nice Sram Red here for €1125
DA here for €1099

Lumen

sy wrote: »

Nice Sram Red here for €1125

Not full Red for that price. If you select the Red cassette and BB it goes up to €1.487,61.

Still, I think Shimano cassettes are better than Red, and the non-ceramic BB is better than ceramic.

Force with Red shifters is the way forward, IMO.

lalorm

Does anyone know what the overall weight difference is between the Ultegra 6700 and the Dura-ace 7900?? Is it worth the extra money? Are we talking about 1kg or less?

fat bloke

lalorm wrote: »

Does anyone know what the overall weight difference is between the Ultegra 6700 and the Dura-ace 7900?? Is it worth the extra money? Are we talking about 1kg or less?

KG???? You joking? -I'd be surprised if it was even 50g!

DirkVoodoo

lalorm wrote: »

Does anyone know what the overall weight difference is between the Ultegra 6700 and the Dura-ace 7900?? Is it worth the extra money? Are we talking about 1kg or less?

1Kg between two groupsets in the top tier of road bikes would be something I would like to see

About 300g:

Hand on heart I'd have to say that blindfolded I'd be very hard pressed to tell the difference between the two. There's no real performance advantage to be had by buying Dura Ace kit over the new Ultegra, not one you'll notice out on the road at least. The new Ultegra kit is excellent: shifts are crisp, braking is noticeably better, power transmission is near faultless.

lalorm

Well that's my point. The outlay isn't worth the extra bills. for a couple of hundred grams, you may as well keep your money and try and loose a bit more of any excess body fat if you have any. Or get a lighter helmet like the Giro Prolight. Cheaper and the same savings.

fat bloke

lalorm wrote: »

Well that's my point. The outlay isn't worth the extra bills. for a couple of hundred grams, you may as well keep your money and try and loose a bit more of any excess body fat if you have any. Or get a lighter helmet like the Giro Prolight. Cheaper and the same savings.

You calling my wife fat!:mad:



Yeah, sure I know all that. "Worth" is relative innit. She has a really good lid, the bike is smashing, zipp 303's for nice days, kysrium SL's for crap days, the only relative fly in the ointment is the Ultegra. If I had the chance again I'd have shelled out the extra few notes for DA, but if I could switch over for a not unreasonable wad now, then I'd be tempted.

Something different for Valentine's day eh? I'd certainly rather that than waste it on poxy flowers and chocolates!

lalorm

I walked into that one didn't I.

Lumen

fat bloke wrote: »

Something different for Valentine's day eh? I'd certainly rather that than waste it on poxy flowers and chocolates!

TT bike. Cyclocross bike. Mountain bike. Winter training bike. Folding travel bike. Cargo bike. Monstercross bike. Hub-geared drop-bar mixtie. Tandem. Fixie. Track bike.

etc.

fat bloke

Lumen wrote: »

TT bike. Cyclocross bike. Mountain bike. Winter training bike. Folding travel bike. Cargo bike. Monstercross bike. Hub-geared drop-bar mixtie. Tandem. Fixie. Track bike.

etc.

No room for extra bikes. Plus a decent anything-bike is going to be loadsa money.

Plus, her winter training bike has dura-ace (7800)! -Hence the conundrum.

Meh.... maybe cadbury's dairy milk and Aldi tulips are the no-brainer after all...

levitronix

KMC gold chain !!! job done