Originally Posted by
CampioneDeCasa
So I suppose I have a follow up question as to whether anyone thinks there would be more interest in an analog version of the rear hub. Not sure if that could easily be internally routed in a way that would make the effort and cost any more efficient than just buying a 2x, but I'm already a bit of a Luddite when it comes to bike stuff and would prefer my stuff to remain analog.
I don’t see any advantage to adding mechanical complexity just to avoid…what, electricity use? I don’t think that electricity is going scarce for most of us anytime soon, and even fewer of us have made any effort at all to harness solar or generate our own in any way at all. Just riding our bikes could generate electricity, but how many of us even have a generator hub? No, I think avoiding the benefits of electricity is pretty silly, and even if the hub system battery was to go flat, you’d still have 11 (or more) gears to choose from, hardly a catastrophe.