Electronic shifting!!
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Electronic shifting!!
I couldn't find a thread on this topic. Just went to my lbs for pedals and shoes and it seems electronic shifting is the new way to go.
Anyone have real world experience with this? Battery life, shifting quality in suboptimal conditions, maintenance?
My new road would be all carbon with ultegra electronic shifting. Seems like a big step up from my caad 9 tiagara!
Is this the future of road cycling??
Goriot
Anyone have real world experience with this? Battery life, shifting quality in suboptimal conditions, maintenance?
My new road would be all carbon with ultegra electronic shifting. Seems like a big step up from my caad 9 tiagara!
Is this the future of road cycling??
Goriot
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I couldn't find a thread on this topic. Just went to my lbs for pedals and shoes and it seems electronic shifting is the new way to go.
Anyone have real world experience with this? Battery life, shifting quality in suboptimal conditions, maintenance?
My new road would be all carbon with ultegra electronic shifting. Seems like a big step up from my caad 9 tiagara!
Is this the future of road cycling??
Goriot
Anyone have real world experience with this? Battery life, shifting quality in suboptimal conditions, maintenance?
My new road would be all carbon with ultegra electronic shifting. Seems like a big step up from my caad 9 tiagara!
Is this the future of road cycling??
Goriot
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Dude.
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Ultegra Di2 - best investment on my bike. Brake levers are more solid (due to no shifting mech). Shifts "just work". I can play with the adjustment if I wish, but I can do it quickly, easily, on the bike riding or when it's on a workstand.
No problems with battery life: I re-charge once a month, ride about 800-1,000 miles/month.
No problems with battery life: I re-charge once a month, ride about 800-1,000 miles/month.
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Electronic shifting!!
Downtube friction shifters work just fine. My whole bike collection cost less than electronic shifting Di2 what-sits. AND you really feel the shifting. Very direct feel with the short cable. And oh so easy to maintain.
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Use advanced search, type in DI2 as the keyword, select title only and then chose your time frame. You will get many pages of results.
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bike shop dudes were telling me last week that the new 11 speed dura ace shifts faster than the dura ace Di2. Di2 is very consistant, but not as fast to shift. I can see the veracity in this analysis.
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I think electronic shifting is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. My bike shifts beautifully every time. I can't imagine electronic shifting being worth the negligible difference. Some one else said it, but one of the joys of cycling is not having to plug something in. And of course, there is the hypocrisy. Many of my cycling friends profess a deep concern for the environment. They tend to be anti-hydrofracking and believe in anthroprogenic climate change. Yet they overlook the fact that the source of the power to charge their batteries certainly pollutes the environment, and the batteries themselves are loaded with hazardous chemicals and require a great deal of energy to produce. Mechanical shifting is fine.
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The fact of anthropogenic climate change is so widely accepted by the scientific community, your characterization of its acceptance as "belief" is inaccurate.
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I couldn't find a thread on this topic. Just went to my lbs for pedals and shoes and it seems electronic shifting is the new way to go.
Anyone have real world experience with this? Battery life, shifting quality in suboptimal conditions, maintenance?
My new road would be all carbon with ultegra electronic shifting. Seems like a big step up from my caad 9 tiagara!
Is this the future of road cycling??
Goriot
Anyone have real world experience with this? Battery life, shifting quality in suboptimal conditions, maintenance?
My new road would be all carbon with ultegra electronic shifting. Seems like a big step up from my caad 9 tiagara!
Is this the future of road cycling??
Goriot
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Electronic? Mechanical?
Any shifting is for losers. Real cyclists, at least real men, ride single speed and like it.
Any shifting is for losers. Real cyclists, at least real men, ride single speed and like it.
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Nothing is as effortless Di2. I like the Sram Red on my Addict, but the Di2 on the Foil is nice.
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The pros love electronic shifting. And on a TT bike, it totally rules.
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I couldn't find a thread on this topic. Just went to my lbs for pedals and shoes and it seems electronic shifting is the new way to go.
Anyone have real world experience with this? Battery life, shifting quality in suboptimal conditions, maintenance?
My new road would be all carbon with ultegra electronic shifting. Seems like a big step up from my caad 9 tiagara!
Is this the future of road cycling??
Goriot
Anyone have real world experience with this? Battery life, shifting quality in suboptimal conditions, maintenance?
My new road would be all carbon with ultegra electronic shifting. Seems like a big step up from my caad 9 tiagara!
Is this the future of road cycling??
Goriot
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Yes. I prefer not to further contribute to that by just sticking with my perfectly functioning mechanical shifting. You know, I think the appeal of electronic shifting is due to the fact that many cyclists (even experienced ones) don't know how to shift properly.
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For example, the system has an "auto trim" feature that nudges the FD over a smidge with each RD shift to prevent FD chain rub.
This solves the FD rub problem that many cyclists have, since I am guessing 98% of cyclists don't know how to use the trim on their mechanical FD shifter, or don't even know it exists!
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Agree.
For example, the system has an "auto trim" feature that nudges the FD over a smidge with each RD shift to prevent FD chain rub.
This solves the FD rub problem that many cyclists have, since I am guessing 98% of cyclists don't know how to use the trim on their mechanical FD shifter, or don't even know it exists!
For example, the system has an "auto trim" feature that nudges the FD over a smidge with each RD shift to prevent FD chain rub.
This solves the FD rub problem that many cyclists have, since I am guessing 98% of cyclists don't know how to use the trim on their mechanical FD shifter, or don't even know it exists!
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Agree.
For example, the system has an "auto trim" feature that nudges the FD over a smidge with each RD shift to prevent FD chain rub.
This solves the FD rub problem that many cyclists have, since I am guessing 98% of cyclists don't know how to use the trim on their mechanical FD shifter, or don't even know it exists!
For example, the system has an "auto trim" feature that nudges the FD over a smidge with each RD shift to prevent FD chain rub.
This solves the FD rub problem that many cyclists have, since I am guessing 98% of cyclists don't know how to use the trim on their mechanical FD shifter, or don't even know it exists!
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For the love of god, I seriously doubt if anyone has anything new to say in this electronic versus mechanical pis*ing contest? Why are we bothering....?