I think Deore levers are nice'r than XTR's in my opinion, the XTR's are good but they gave me realy bad blisters, I meen realy bad. I was of my bike for a week becuase of them, after that they were good though, but the Deores are really nice I thought, they are really cheap aswell. If I were you i would go with the deore or Maybe a XTR. If you can stretch your limit then go for a Ultimate, there Niceeee.