THE GROUPSET OF THE PEOPLE 🏆

The NEW Shimano 105 12-speed mechanical groupset is here! Ollie takes a closer look 👀

📺🔍 Shimano 105 12-Speed Mechanical First Look

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[commenter]

Me with my shimano alivio groupset moded city bike.
Yes.

[Sierra-bwgm]

The thing I liked most, about shimano launching 105 di2. Was that I got ultegra 11 speed on my new bike. At a hugely discounted price 👌

[gravelnomad]

Sensah, LTwoo and all the other Chinese brands are just waiting to take over. 🎉😂

[kobe]

It stopped being "for the people" after r7000

[gazzas]

Its not a groupset of the people because of the price. 900 quid for mechanical??? The big players are becoming so out of touch with working people so is gcn. I wont bother eating for a month but ill have an extra cog!!!

[petetube]

Imma fucking loving having a superfast superlightweight rim brake bike. No headaches, just fun. Remember that GCN?

[dereknolantan]

And they need to produce a rim brake version for the people as well 🤩

[jamesetheridge]

Tiagra 10 speed is £500 cheaper than 105 mechanical. This is the groupset of the people.

[angieee-]

its the Tiagra and Sora for me(atleast in my country)

[imrevadasz]

My next bike will probably be 12 speed, but 2x6 🤠

[divinemercy]

Honestly dura ace is the groupset of people..

[kevingregoire]

make us a dura ace 12 or 13 mechanical,
For the people please.

[sylvainmichaud]

Shimano is not doing it to do us a favor.
It is simply doing it because its overall sales have dropped *30%* in 2023. And next year it will be worst because of the sale cycle in the bike industry. (Order made 6 month+ prior to model year.)
People don't buy 5k+ road bikes anymore.
Shimano didn't have OEM product to offer for entry level race bike.
Manufacturers demanded 105 mechanical.
Shimano had no choice.

[imrevadasz]

I'm rather going to buy some neat new-old-stock parts of the very first 105 generation (1050 and 1055) for my next bike. Looks far better, and 1055 had some slightly aero-optimized shapes, e.g. for the derailleur cage, the front derailleur, and the downtube shifter 😊.

[Bobby-wnyr]

Trouble is you can still buy the 11spd for so cheap. Unless you’re racing or just want the latest thing there’s really not a noticeable difference between 11 and 12 spd and the R7000 group is eipically good.

Honestly to me it seems the R7000 is a bit of a problem for Shimano because for 95% of road cyclists there’s no reason to upsell from it. Going from 8 to 11 spd gets you a 37% increase in the number of gears, you notice that. 11 to 12 is a 9% increase… you don’t notice that.

Over the last 5 or so years I’ve had mixed 11 and 12 speed 2 and 1x setups on road, gravel and MTB bikes… you just do not notice it unless you’re A/B testing

[caroselangelomalinis]

I hope SRAM releases 12speed mechanical as well.

[afterthep]

my di2 gave up its ghost after one year, never happened to any mechanical group I ever owned

[Kimberlietriracer]

So, if you get a peleton of shimano 105 Di2 together, does one signal interfere with another bike's electronic shifting?

[EverythingWasGreat]

Its only the groupset of the people because it cost like a Ultegra/Dura ace groupset did a couple of years ago and the price for mid/high tier is insane. I got 105 on my new bike that cost 4k. I had Sram red Etap on my previous bike and i can say that 105 mechanical is still low tier. I would never get a bike with 105 if i could choose.

[nsrbigoda]

Will this setup be available on a aero bike?