
" Riding down some nice bit of single track do I think that was a sweet gear change ?? NO !! "
But if you get to the bottom and go round a bend only to find it goes steeply up again you will be grateful if you have a top end gear system that will make multiple changes under pressure and without fail . Alivio is probably ok for most of the time but it,s just that important 1% of the time the best just works better and much more consistantly.