Originally Posted by
merlinextraligh
I agree that electronic shifting is the future, and we're just scraping the surface of the potential for fully integrated electronic groupsets.
However, there is some percentage of people who will never buy electronic shifting based upon the aesthetic that a bicycle should not require any power other than the rider to operate.
Rotor must be betting that percentage is high enough to give them a market niche.
I'm sure they did their homework/market research -- then again, they may be laying the groundwork for something totally new in shifting -- although I couldn't imagine what it might be.