Originally Posted by
splithub
Probably because it's not phasing out yet?
I tried hard to get my hands on a Zee and failed. Since shops don't have it anymore here, prices go high.
Supply chains are still, as they say here, munted. As bikes are still very much toys to most people in the West, 11x and 12x Shimano and SRAM kit is out there still for the expensive upgrades but their other groupsets aren’t that easy to find. So if you’re happy sticking with 8-10x setups for affordable chains and cassettes, Microshift is increasingly filling that gap, particularly as they sell shifter/derailleur/cassette combos together for simple upgrades. Bearing in mind that if I wanted to use any form of 1x shifters on dropped handlebars without breaking the bank I would probably end up using a Microshift product, so the non-Shimano cable pull isn’t really a problem with their derailleurs.