Rudeboy – I actually agree with you!
Uh-oh. We’ve got one ear. Nut-job…. 😯
Truth is, no-one has had the balls to challenge Shimano peopply. Campag, probbly the best placed manufacturer of bike bits, jolly well have not bothered to consider the MTB market. More fool them. Silly buggers.
SRAM have a fair few products which can challenge for Shimano’s dominance of the MTB component market, but no groupsets, which is Shimano’s forté.
All it need, were a couple of companies, with balls, to take on the Japanese giant.
So, in a sport where balls are needed, the companies that supply us with bits, are ball-less….