icepick_trotsky 

I don't think it's wise to be entirely anti-tech in cycling, however, despite how egregious it seems for the big manufacturers to push new for new's sake on all us rubes. Yeah, most of this stuff is just a point of diminishing returns, and maybe a lot of it is wild experimentation that will end up as a technological dead end, but some of it may be genuine innovation that improves the way we ride.

Sure, most of us aren't interested in electronic shifting or hydrolic disk brakes, but we've all benefited from the manufacturer's willingness to try new things. Take tires, for example. There are way more options that allow different sorts of riding than there were even a decade ago. Some of this stuff is dumb and unnecessary, but how can we know which? I applaud the itch to innovate.