Tell that to their stock price, revenue, profitability, and declining margins. 🤣 Shimano is being eaten alive from above and below. Cues and road are like...
Tell that to their stock price, revenue, profitability, and declining margins. 🤣 Shimano is being eaten alive from above and below. Cues and road are like the only bright spots they have left.
The mass market also doesn't care about Cues. Walmart bikes (ozark trail) come with ltwoo and microshift. Specialized and trek offer cues on a select few bikes... where it competes with... ltwoo and microshift in the range. They are maaaaaaybe moving enough cues stuff to offset revenue weaknesses in other segments. In a quest to make half as much money as before? Again, see their financials. It's bad. The decline is real, and very clear. They are showing that there's not enough cues sales in the world to make up for the loss of those juicy, juicy premium segment (XTR etc) dollars.
Deore and 105 is fancy shiny shit; they're even offered with Di2... It's clearly part of the premium segment, developed, and designed to exist with the rest of the premium range like XTR and Dura-Ace. Shared technology, compatibility, etc. It's just less fancy and shiny than what sram has, especially on the mountain side. Again, because they have spent a decade bringing too little too late, over and over.
My point was that their strategy continues to not make sense, including with this Saint launch. This is clearly playing out in the market (and their financials). If you think the premium segment doesn't matter, and is just some silly little side quest because it's not "mass market" then explain SRAM. And then explain why sram is seeing significant revenue growth over that period while shimano is, let's be very generous and say, flat.
I know I'll get flamed for this by shimano fanboys, but if shimano keeps this up they will turn into campagnolo in like 10 years. Oh wait, I almost forgot, they'll still have fishing reels! 🤣
The mass market also doesn't care about Cues. Walmart bikes (ozark trail) come with ltwoo and microshift. Specialized and trek offer cues on a select few bikes...
maybe start looking into the real cycling market (europe) instead of your narrow american centric view. 80% of my show room is cues
maybe start looking into the real cycling market (europe) instead of your narrow american centric view. 80% of my show room is cues
Someone on here must surely know when this is going to be announced / released?
Everything looks ready, saint logos are just covered up by tape now
Word on the street is Sea Otter 2030
Counted 8 on the shown cassette , could be wrong
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