Originally Posted by
Homebrew01
False analogy. Those other innovations were improvements.
In this case, it appears that it would cause problems by putting you in a gear that you may not want to be in.
No. Correct analogy.
While there are modes of failure for an automatic transmission, there are modes of failure for cambio corsa, friction, index and electronic shifting. There can only be no mode of failure with fixed gear. As I wrote before, Henri Desgrange was correct.