Aside from gravel gearing chainsets, matching front mechs, levers & brakes?satanas wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:40 pmThere's been nothing substantial at all about Cues for road - only rumours about rumours. No need to panic about it yet, but if it happens panicking will be eminently reasonable IMHO. Cues might be good for OEMS, but a nightmare for everyone else until all the pre-Cues stuff is worn out or has been abandoned.
The only part that's really missing for 12 speed GRX is a clutched rear derailleur; all the other bits are mostly present in other groups. They might not have the same cosmetics, but that shouldn't matter much...
Sure, you could cobble together a GRX-esque group but you'd be limited to 50/34 x 11-34 (unless you find an 11-36 cassette)
Having gone down a similar path pre-GRX with Easton EC90 chainset & 9150/9170 parts elsewhere, I for one won't do that again. I ended up subbing in XTR Di2 mechs and chainset for proper gearing and even that isn't ideal. Shimano mechs shifting across the dedicated Shimano chainrings will always outperform everything, IME.