Originally Posted by
grolby
What I'm not crazy about is that front shifts are supposedly initiated by pressing the shift button on both levers simultaneously. That's a potential headache for a few reasons, not least of which being working on the damn thing in a stand.
i agree--i am pretty suspect of that. (then again, i happen not to prefer double-tap in their mechanical offering.)
*requiring* two hands for a shift seems like a step backward. from what i've read, they are trying to distinguish themselves in some way...and the skeptic in me wonders if part of it is just that they are late to the game.
on a tangent, the SRM PC7 requires a simultaneous press of two buttons to activate a feature (check ZO), and it's annoying. 99% of the time you nail it but every once in a while one winds up hitting the buttons out of sync. i haven't used sram electronic of course, but i'd wonder how tolerant the system is of minor issues with timing; missing a front shift is a bigger deal than checking ZO.
i'm hoping SRM fixed this with the 8.