What is the best groupset over the past 25 years (1998-2023) in your opinion?

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I'm gonna have to say Dura Ace 7800. Beautiful, light, stiff, no fuss, shifts like butter and could still win Grand Tours today.

2. SRAM Red 1st Gen - super.
3. Tiagra 4700 - excellent, shifts like top end groups.
4. 5800 shimano 105 - the best all rounder.
5. Ultegra 6500.

Campagnolo - not much experience from me.

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I'll drink to DA 7800, probably the best ever combining looks with performance
It’s got to be 7800. Extremely well made and the standards it introduced all aged really well.

I also about the tricolor 600.

Would be nice to know the personalities and inside stories of the people that developed these grouppos.
 
No Shimano with exposed cables, yuk. 4700 was indeed a bargain and great for upgrades due to pull ratio. (think youngster buying new stuff etc) but now 7000 so cheap.
Potenza for me, got three sets, all cobbled together from eBay separate purchases and it very solid in a way 5800 could never achieve with age (have had lots)
Looks, anything Campag late 80s early 90's, no contest, it ages well unlike the other sides discouloured peeling plasic levers etc. To be fair though, mechanical 7000 is such value it's hard to ignore. All hydraulic levers are ugly IMHO. Hard to admit, but 7000 has hit the spot (stupid cassette 11-32 ratios aside).
 

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