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41 comments
My neighbour's new car rings my door bell every time he comes in and goes out so until wireless interference is sorted I'm not in the least bit interested.
I don't want wires and batteries either so I'm definitely out. I ride a bicycle not a gadget
i rode in on down tube shifters today. happy days
Blimey I don't know how I used to cope with five speeds on the back.
Seems a bit of the gadget. I bet there will be one or two MAMIL's buying it though.
Why bother having more and more gears? All you need is a hydraulically-actuated system that expands and contracts a single cog and you've got an incrementally variable transmission.
So true cable gears work so well that said Shimano will go wireless in the future with gear showing computer etc and then i will be having some
Fugly!
Not long til the powermeter is included and the software is pre-programmed with the stage layout so watts generated are always at their most economic and the gears changed in auto to assist.
Can we get electric steering while were at it, the satnag can take care of that too.
Not a fan, love technology advances but can only see this removing rider ability in the long run.
Sticking to my 9 speed. Gets me up some of the decent hills up here no problems. If you need more than that you either need to learn to climb or loose some weight
And dave, down shifters ahh found memories
+1
can run on either radio frequencies (2.4GHz control frequencies, most likely) or via Bluetooth connectivity
Bluetooth _is_ 2.4Ghz radio
(I know what you're trying to say, though )
How do you fill in the cog gaps? Appreciate you might theoretically be able to get an 11 tooth to look something like a (say) 22 tooth gear by making it bigger so each of the 11 teeth was interspersed with a 1 tooth sized gap, but I can't believe you would have a terribly quiet or reliable system... Be an interesting mechanical challenge to get the thing to expand in such a way that spaces between teeth or between teeth/gaps remained constant (chain spacing can't change).
The alternative is a hydrostatic continuously variable transmission system which would allow you to have notionally infinitely adjustable ratios. The only thing I don't know is how efficient they are. Bet it would be a very heavy system too. Any machinists out there feel like having a go at building one? I guess you'd have to try to find a way to build it all into the bottom bracket...
I'm not wasting my money on a 12 speed wireless set up. I'm waiting for the 13 speed thought controlled set I hear a big manufacturer is working on.
I can't understand how I have lived and ridden my bikes for well over 40 years without 12 speed gears.....
I'm just waiting for someone to re-invent that old fashioned idea of a single gear that had no freewheel.
What was it called? Oh I remember now - a "fixed".
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