Originally Posted by
alcjphil
Another numbers game. Shimano is a much bigger company sponsoring many more teams than Campagnolo. If you count Lance's wins, he was mostly riding with inferior components. Campagnolo introduced 10 speed years before Shimano did. My take is that component tech is never going to determine a TDF winner. The company sponsoring the most teams will win out
Preaching to the choir, have a Chorus 11s bike myself. Nice stuff--but local parts and support basically don't exist.
That being said as the number of teams running it has plummeted and the OEM deals have all but evaporated at this point...rough seas ahead, in terms of keeping the lights on. Their own little corner of the market is getting yanked out from under their feet. Campagnolo went so far as to license Shimano's Centerlock for their own disc rotors.