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Two bikes, a Sabbath Silk Road and a Guerciotti cross bike. Both currently built up and working fine and dandy; roadie has a Rival groupset and cross has a mix of older shimano stuff (tiagra and 105 I think) along with Ritchey cantis.
Lucky me, in my 'hoard' I have a full Red groupset that I could put on to the Sabbath and move the Rival groupset on to the crosser... or I could sell it and be happy with the current builds.
Question is, I guess, would there be a noticeable difference if I did do the swap? Or would I just be doing it for the 'bling' factor on the Sabbath?
Also, how would I use the Rival doubletap shifters with cantis?
Can't see any reason the levers wouldn't work with Canti's or is there soemthing I don't know about SRAM brakes?
As for difference, I've only ever used Shimano Dura Ace and Shimano Tiagra, I've never once been on the tiagra bike and though "I wish I had dura ace". They both work, they both shift, they both brake, both pretey equaly well. The difference is that the DA ones have almost no play in them which feels nice, and makes the others feel cheep, but unless your looking for it its not an issue.
Can't see any reason the levers wouldn't work with Canti's or is there something I don't know about SRAM brakes?
It's more likely something I don't know about this setup, 'tis foreign to me!
The Rival groupset seems pretty solid to me, nice carbon levers, doubletap shifting, all looks very similar to the Red really... having not ridden Red though, I wonder if I'm missing out on something! 😆
Red feels hardly any different to Rival.
However I'd put the rival on the cross bike and the red on the other bike just so you have two decent groupsets. I've got rival on my cross bike with cantis and it's fine. Force was the standout groupset. Exactly the same as Red in everything other than a few grams.
For the simple fact you'll have both bikes feeling the same that is enough to make it worth while IMO. It used to do my head in having my winter bike with shimano and best bike SRAM. So no I have both with SRAM and the doubletap is now 2nd nature, no more silly shifting errors. For rival vs red the one difference you might find depends on the exact age groupset as the rival had a different front mech trip position iirc red trim is on big ring but I think rival was originally trimming on small ring?
The throw on the red shifters is a good bit less than the rival. They feel noticably different when shifting. Red feel much better than rival imho. Whether they are worth the extra funds is debatable.
Not sure there is any noticable difference in the brake perfomance - rival brakes are pretty good.
I use rival shifters on a cross bike, albeit with BB7s not canti's. Yhey are fine.