Well, putting the "soul" of things aside, they are both horribly overpriced (Shimano, Campagnolo and SRAM).
400euro for a single shifter is just wrong. It's just a cable pulley with a gear and a locking mechanism for the indexing.
and then there are the "electronic" units, where even the one complication in the mechanism, the operation of brakes and shifting with one lever, is absent, which are actually 500euro brake levers with a light-switch jammed into them.
But for their simpler series the Veloce and Centaur maybe have some more value then a Sora or 2300. They are 10 speed too, not 8 or 9.
At some point the notch where the cable barrel secures on the lever on the 2300 shifter broke. (The cable was stuck and the lever broke before the cable?
) There was only one part available and that was the whole "Front Assembly" which costed 40 euro? (Basically everything except the clamp that attaches the shifter on the handlebar). The whole shifter costs 50 euro.
At least Campagnolo has every single part available even in the simpler series like Veloce and Centaur, buuut the dealers here dont support them that well.
Shimano is found in almost (if not) all bike shops around here.
Thinking of why that is, it's probably because they have a bigger profit margin, not because they are "better" in any way. Also since Campagnolo is not so well represented by the dealers it's hard to get parts.
With a pair of Veloce shifters the above problem would be probably just a 20 euro repair. The only series that you can get just a lever in Shimano, is from 105 onwards, (if not Ultegra) where just the lever would cost 100 euro anyway.
400euro for a single shifter is just wrong. It's just a cable pulley with a gear and a locking mechanism for the indexing.
and then there are the "electronic" units, where even the one complication in the mechanism, the operation of brakes and shifting with one lever, is absent, which are actually 500euro brake levers with a light-switch jammed into them.
But for their simpler series the Veloce and Centaur maybe have some more value then a Sora or 2300. They are 10 speed too, not 8 or 9.
At some point the notch where the cable barrel secures on the lever on the 2300 shifter broke. (The cable was stuck and the lever broke before the cable?
At least Campagnolo has every single part available even in the simpler series like Veloce and Centaur, buuut the dealers here dont support them that well.
Shimano is found in almost (if not) all bike shops around here.
Thinking of why that is, it's probably because they have a bigger profit margin, not because they are "better" in any way. Also since Campagnolo is not so well represented by the dealers it's hard to get parts.
With a pair of Veloce shifters the above problem would be probably just a 20 euro repair. The only series that you can get just a lever in Shimano, is from 105 onwards, (if not Ultegra) where just the lever would cost 100 euro anyway.