Originally Posted by
eriku16
Laugh and make the funny retro grouch comments all you want... Ones perceived age has nothing to do with it.
The reality is that the bicycle took a VERY long time to evolve to be the simple, light HUMAN powered and operated machine it is today. It all about maximizing the puny amount of energy we humans output to make the most efficient means to move and to operate it from point A to B. Adding electro-servo motors to replace muscle power is the antithesis to what a bicycle is all about in the first place.
IMO, electronic shifting is just a FAD, get it? Because if the fails don't make you quit it, planned obsolescence of the systems will.
Saw a quite a few fails in the pro ranks over the past few years. No one wants to talk about them though. Why being so quiet? Oh, it may hurts sales, that's why...
If it was about efficiency you'd be riding a 'bent velomobile, but you aren't.
I'm not sure why some people are so determined to define what a bicycle means to every person on Earth, regardless of what it might actually mean to other people. It speaks of a desperate need to convince themselves.