Thread: Wireless computer or Wired???
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Old 05-20-12 | 02:24 AM
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Originally Posted by krobinson103
Call me old fashioned if you want, but making something more complicated for the sake of it seems pointless. A computer is attached to the bike and its not like you are going to go walking around with it. Why put more in there to fail when its only a wire or 2 riding the cables or tubes on the bike? The wires are simple 2 core jobs and if they for some reason fail it would take me all of 5 minutes to solder them back together.
Your right, but even as we speak the much more complicated electronic shifting is making headway, which in my opinion...like yours...is pointless. We see this in our cars today to, pointless technology. And all of this pointless technology adds to repair costs.
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