Campagnolo Resurrects the Record Name — 13-Speed, Wireless, and Priced Against Ultegra Di2
For the first time in eighteen months, Campagnolo has launched a new groupset that is not Super Record. The brand has revived the Record name as a 13-speed wireless platform sitting one tier below its top-level offering, with a launch price that lines up against Shimano Ultegra Di2 and SRAM Force AXS rather than against Dura-Ace and Red. After a generation of being priced out of the second-tier conversation, Campagnolo is back in it.
The architecture is borrowed almost wholesale from Super Record Wireless. Lever ergonomics are identical, the rear derailleur sits in the same position relative to the dropout, and the crankset uses the same direct-mount chainring system. What changes is the materials story: where Super Record uses carbon, titanium and ceramic in the marquee components, Record substitutes alloy and steel where the engineering brief allows. The result is a platform Campagnolo says is around 2,800 grams in 2x13 road trim — roughly 200g heavier than Super Record, and within touching distance of an Ultegra Di2 build.
Pricing is where the launch lives or dies. Record 2x13 Road starts at €2,699 and Record X 1x13 Gravel at €2,129, putting the platform more than €1,600 below an equivalent Super Record build and in the same window as Shimano's Ultegra Di2 R8170 and SRAM's Force AXS. For a brand that has spent five years effectively absent from the mid-priced wireless conversation — Chorus 12 was a holdover, Centaur was mechanical — the move is the most aggressive pricing decision Campagnolo has made since the launch of the original Record EPS in 2011.
The five available configurations sketch out the brief. Record 2x13 Road and Record X 1x13 Gravel are the high-volume builds. Record X 1x13 Road, Record 1x13 Road and Record 2x13 All Road follow with staggered availability through July, with the All Road build the slowest to ship: Campagnolo has confirmed the disc-brake calipers required for that platform are still being scaled to volume. Battery range is quoted at 750 kilometres per charge with USB-C charging both on and off the bike, identical to Super Record's specification.
The strategic implication for the wireless groupset market is immediate. Shimano has held the second-tier wireless segment effectively unchallenged since Ultegra Di2 R8170 launched in 2022, with SRAM's Force AXS the only credible alternative. A 13-speed Italian-built groupset at sub-€2,700 reopens the conversation for the first time in four model years — and crucially, does so with a 13-speed cassette range that neither Shimano's 12-speed Ultegra nor SRAM's 12-speed Force can match without compromising step ratios.
Crucially, Record 13 launches without a corresponding power-meter version. Campagnolo's confirmation that an integrated SRM-collaboration crank-based power meter will follow in the third quarter of 2026 leaves a two-month window where second-tier buyers will need to pair the new groupset with an aftermarket meter. For a launch positioned against Ultegra Di2 — which has had a competitive 4iiii or Shimano-branded power option since day one — the gap is the single soft point in an otherwise aggressive product brief.
Two of the five configurations launched on 29 April for immediate dealer order; the remaining three are scheduled for July with allocation already running on a back-order basis. The launch pricing window will hold through the European retail season, with Campagnolo confirming no pre-Eurobike adjustment to the announced numbers. For UK and US riders, the dealer-network rollout follows a four-to-six-week lag behind Italy and Germany, which puts the first complete-bike Record 13 specifications onto showroom floors by mid-June.
What the launch does not do is challenge Super Record at the top of the range. Campagnolo's 2026 product map keeps the flagship platform untouched at its current pricing, with the brand's working assumption that Record 13 will pull in the rider who would otherwise have stepped down to Ultegra rather than the rider who would have stepped up to Super Record. For the first time in a generation, Campagnolo has built a groupset designed to win volume, not status.