Originally Posted by pgjackson

I think the only dislike right now is price...which will go down dramatically in the future. I have a sneaky feeling that the actual technology involved is very simple and probably very inexpensive to design and build...but since it represents a significant change over the established norm that it demands a high price at the moment. Meaning it probably doesn't cost Shimano much more to put one on the shelf that it does other shifter systems. The technology itself is not new, but applying it to a bike IS new.