Originally Posted by
Runner 1
But electric gearing does contribute to the movement *functionality* of the bike, which in an OCD way kind of bothers me since it is an external energy source. Don't get me wrong, I'd take Di2 in a heartbeat, but I'd be much less mentally anguished if the energy was siphoned from a human movement. It sort of takes the "I alone control this machine" to "... along with a microchip and a battery".
I kind of agree.
Electric assisted shifting is in a sense cheating.
With normal shifting the operator has to put energy of his fingers into the shifting.
This energy is then lost.
With electric shifting there is less energy lost since it comes from the battery.
They should outlaw this nonsense and carry pcad through the streets lined with tar and feathers.