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The new Force groupset gets some refined componentry and a sparkly facelift
Words SAM C
There has been a lot of head-scratching around Shimano’s curiously disjointed update of its GRX groupset from 11 to 12-speed, which has taken the best part of two years to complete. First to arrive we
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