Campagnolo are launching this years 2009 groupsets. One new development likely to catch the eye, is their 11 speed groupset for the Chorus and Record groupsets. This will give a standard road bike 22 gears and gives Campag bragging rights over Shimano.
Campag claim that the new cassettes will still fit existing wheels and take up the same space as a 10 sprocket. They have managed to get an extra sprocket on by reducing the width of the chain from 5.9mm to 5.5 mm.
For someone who is still happy to ride 9 speed Groupset (mostly Shimano Ultegra 9 speed), I’m not sure how important / beneficial 11 speeds actually are. What it does mean is that if you choose a 12-23 cassette then every gear ratio would only change by 1; if your keen to retain a very constant cadence then the 11 speed will certainly help.
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