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Electronic Shifting
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On Monday, July 15, 2019 at 3:11:39 PM UTC+2, AMuzi wrote: On 7/14/2019 10:08 PM, jbeattie wrote: On Sunday, July 14, 2019 at 5:56:55 PM UTC-7, Chalo wrote: Electronic shifting is like hydraulic shifting, or hydraulic brakes, or pneumatic shifting-- a solution in search of a problem. Added cost, added points of failure, added difficulty to service and maintain, negligible to nonexistent benefit. A pass-fail intelligence test. But it IS electric. It goes to 11 . . . or 12. I have Di2 on one bike because it was OE and will admit that it is fun (good shifting under load, fast and low effort shifting), but it is entirely elective and not all that much "better" than Ultegra level 11sp shifters, which are pretty damned good. It is certain within the ambit of products one could purchase. It's not crazy or dopey, etc. I just have questions about cost-benefit. -- Jay Beattie. One trivial example: Shifting with meatware leads some large number of riders into small-small most of the time. Electronic systems can't shift there! -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 Why not? I can. lou And my mechanical 3x9 system does big-big, small-small and all combinations in between. Obviously, the combinations that aren’t horribly cross-chained work a bit better, but not so bad that I need an interlock to prevent me from shifting into them. |
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