Originally Posted by
CliffordK
One thing that would be nice would be a longterm commitment for spare parts.
There is someone that is looking for Ultegra 6700 cones... almost impossible to find now, although it is not clear if it is just not available, or poor parts distribution.
And, of course the 6800 and 8000 cones are different.
Yeah, Shimano's parts support is woeful, and it's not helped by all these crazy arbitrary differences... I'm pretty sure it would have been perfectly feasible to ensure all their wheelset hubs would have used one of half a dozen types of cone instead of a different flavour for almost each and every one, it's insane. And it's absolutely criminal that they can't seem to support even their series hubs, what a bloody joke. But at least cone life is almost indefinite if you look after them (ensure preload is okay and occasionally feel for contamination by twirling the axle)... You can usually fudge in a cone that doesn't belong, but you've gotta be pretty lucky for the sealing not to suffer.
What really burns me up is that they don't even pretend to supply replacements for their fabulous RS80/81/Dura-Ace carbon/ally rims, which being rim brake, are unquestionably consumables. God damn.