It often happens in the bike industry where the more expensive product will have a feature, like XTR’s additional adjustment, and I wonder if it really would have cost a dime more to just design/manufacture that feature into every level of product.
Certainly in Shimano’s case the quality of M6100 is so good now they could dump SLX and sell more XT/Deore mixed bikes and save a pile of cash at the manufacturing and marketing end. Then some of those features could better trickle down thanks to requiring less effort to micro-differentiate the different groups.
May 5, 2021, 8 a.m. - Andrew Major
It often happens in the bike industry where the more expensive product will have a feature, like XTR’s additional adjustment, and I wonder if it really would have cost a dime more to just design/manufacture that feature into every level of product. Certainly in Shimano’s case the quality of M6100 is so good now they could dump SLX and sell more XT/Deore mixed bikes and save a pile of cash at the manufacturing and marketing end. Then some of those features could better trickle down thanks to requiring less effort to micro-differentiate the different groups.