Anyone using this? Opinions? Really fancy it on my road / light off road bike
Thanks
Don't do it! Cheap plasticy unreliable levers, grim chainline on mates Open made it really noisy... she bought it as was having the bike built when nothing else was available.... recently swapped to Sram red instead... way nicer!
I have Ekar on my Swiss Cross. Overall I reckon it's a good groupset, and considering it was the cheapest option when I bought it I think it's great. Brakes are excellent, lightweight, simple. Downsides for me are that shifting up the cassette (into lower gears) isn't very precise - I put this down to the fact that you can shift 3 gears in one lever throw so it's too easy to push the lever further than you need. I also find a couple of the ratio jumps on the cassette a bit big and some too small.
Chainline is fine for me and - touch wood - no reliability issues so far.
