Originally Posted by
FlashBazbo
PCad, if you don't want to buy it, don't ever try it. It is a siren song that will not allow you to escape.
(And, by the way . . . all those positive reviews you read on the Internet? The one on WW recommending that you sell all you have in order to have it? None of them are exaggerating. It's amazing -- oh, not for the Campy and SRAM disciples who love "firm" shifting and a good "clunk" with their shifts -- but for those who like silent, deadly, smooth shifting, it makes 7800/7900 feel primitive.)
Regardless of how Schwagdelic it may be, no matter how smoothly it operates, it uses electronics and a friggin battery in a bicycle environment.
I have zero point zero zero interest in that. On the other hand I'm sure resistance is futile, and that when I buy some $6K racing bike in 4 years, it will have Di3.