Originally Posted by
rousseau
Clarity, people...the issue is with single or multiple UP-shifting, not downshifting. Downshifting has been multiple cogs for years.
It's the UPSHIFTING that is at issue. Ultrashift can UPSHIFT 5 sprockets at a time and downshift 3, while Powershift can only UPSHIFT one while downshifting 3.
Campagnolo's
web site says:
POWER-SHIFT™ MECHANISM: extremely precise and rapid, it allows you to upshift three sprockets at a time or downshift by one with just a single action.
I see your correlation of bike upshifting to automobile upshifting, to a faster gear. That actually makes the most sense.
It's funny that some riders (and companies) use the opposite direction. Maybe it's because it feels like pushing "up" to a bigger cog, then dropping "down" to a smaller cog.
I tend to use "shift 3 bigger cogs" instead of "downshift 3 cogs" just to avoid confusion.