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Sparing the rider from expending the power required to mechanically shift is not the reason Di2 exists.
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07-02-13, 09:35 PM
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Sparing the rider from expending the power required to mechanically shift is not the reason Di2 exists.
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07-02-13, 09:45 PM
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07-03-13, 07:12 PM
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Nope, they had distinct performance advantages, especially for racers... Electronic shifters have no benefit that would win race. But they have a lot of potential to lose one.
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The newfangled, high tech, round wheels have to go, back when I was alive we rode our wheeled horses with square wheels and we liked it, also there are times I find the whole notion of "road" cycling to be a bit of pampered snobbery, these new-fangled "roads" smack of softness and sophistry. Why, a scarce two or three thousand years ago they were unheard of... I think I will join with the OP and found a new school of cycling. The Paleo-Cycling school, where it's only cool to ride a single, square, rock wheel with a solid wooden axle. Granite, or igneous rock only, the sedimentary rocks being derivative after all.
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The newfangled, high tech, round wheels have to go, back when I was alive we rode our wheeled horses with square wheels and we liked it, also there are times I find the whole notion of "road" cycling to be a bit of pampered snobbery, these new-fangled "roads" smack of softness and sophistry. Why, a scarce two or three thousand years ago they were unheard of... I think I will join with the OP and found a new school of cycling. The Paleo-Cycling school, where it's only cool to ride a single, square, rock wheel with a solid wooden axle. Granite, or igneous rock only, the sedimentary rocks being derivative after all.
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The funny thing is I actually do get the desire to get away from electronics - I'm a software tester / dev by trade, and I do things deliberately to avoid computers at times.
I played around with a Di2 shifter on display, and the nice thing is just there's no more giant arc to activate, there's no chance of mistakenly brake vs shift (happened on my old Ultegra 9sp).
Problems would be battery, and it's not easy to get the right button feel.
In any case, stuff like that is way out of my pay grade. And if I want to go on bike tours, I'd go for mechanical setup any day.
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