Originally Posted by
phrantic09
SRAM makes rim brake ETAP AXS for what it’s worth.
Frayed cables during rides was the biggest reason I pulled the trigger to upgrade. Like you, I shift hundreds of times per ride.
This is not a put down of modern systems; only a simple statement. I had a brifter bike in the mid nineties and liked it enough, Before and since only downtube shifters, and never more than eight cogs in the rear. I can navigate almost everything I come across on my USA rides. Think 'The Storming of Thunder Ridge'. Here, in the land of 5% grades, I go entire rides without shifting.