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Automatic shifting – welcome to the future

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  • October 13, 2014 at 5:14 pm #22573
    giobox

    http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/10/bioshifts-automated-shifting.html

    This looks incredibly impressive for a prototype. Loving how it can be manually overridden at any time like car cruise control. This would be epic in TT scenarios, the bike would guarantee you hit your FTP numbers so long as you kept pedalling, ensuring the most efficient combination of rings to do so.

    I await the usual electronic shifting nay-sayers to explain why all this isn’t necesarry 🙂 , but in all seriousness this is surely the future for Di2 style groupsets.

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  • October 14, 2014 at 9:02 am #817895
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    Ripper

    I think I’d rather do the
    I think I’d rather do the shifting myself. I don’t really want an algorithm telling me what gear I should be in. Also, I hope it’s banned from racing. The article says, “helping you to avoid situations where you’re out of optimum because you’re too tired/lazy/distracted/whatever to shift the bike to a more appropriate gear,” which proves beyond reason that it’s for idiots, the lazy and the unfit.

    October 14, 2014 at 7:47 am #817893
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    OldRidgeback

    The first automatic shifting
    The first automatic shifting system I remember was seen back in the late 1970s.

    October 14, 2014 at 6:48 am #817891
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    Scrufftie

    Looks like an obvious
    Looks like an obvious progression; I can’t wait. I think we’ll have sequential shifting for road bikes (as with XTR Di2) very soon and it’s all really exciting. Yes, there will be some who bemoan the move from friction shifting, but cycling is a technological sport (as are most) so why not embrace it?

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