There is a Requirement to have something new every year And the Corporations Making stuff a re competing with each other for attention ..

OTOH Companies like the German Rohloff they put the engineering in at the front , and just have done subtile changes that dont get Press

because its Not High profile Bike Racer stuff . with TV time and a Bunch of writers and bloggers which need something to do .. to promote it all .

even calling it Speeds is a fallacy.. its not like a Car tranny where all the gears are a sequence of increasing ratios ..


enjoy your kool-aide..