Originally Posted by
HD3andMe
Thank you for admitting that you were wrong when you claimed "modern mountain and road shift and brake levers aren’t compatible with the drivetrain and brake components."
I only admit to being wrong about SRAM. Shimano is not compatible.
Please provide some data that supports your contention that SRAM's market share is "fairly small." Please be specific by market - road, gravel/cross, and MTB.
Based on observation. I see thousands of bicycles per year at my local co-op. SRAM mountain is more prevalent than road. I can not recall the last time I saw a SRAM road system. We have boxes and boxes of Shimano shifters and derailers of both road and mountain. We have very few SRAM mountain drivetrain components in our bins (I watch for them and usually pick them up for my use). I may have seen a single SRAM road component in our parts bin 10 years of working at the co-op.
I also don’t see SRAM road components on bikes that we work on. I can tell you that most anything that comes into the shop I’m asked about and SRAM road just doesn’t come up.
Finally, if someone wanted to run AXS mtb shifters on "curved bars" they certainly could run them on the flats. That would be pretty goofy since you can already run Blips to shift.
That’s my point. You might be able to put mountain bike shifters on road levers but it’s not going to work all that well.
p.s. to answer your question, many people run Di2.
Again, based on my co-op experience, I’ve seen very few of them in a bicycle crazy town.