Will electronic shifting transform this reader’s bike?

  • Tm12
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    22 hours ago

    Call me old-fashioned but electronic stuff has more points of failure, and seems harder to service?

    • Nottalottapies@aussie.zone
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      16 hours ago

      Should be easier to service. No adjusting cable tension, routing new cables through frames… Just calibrate through the app and go for a perfect shift everytime.

      I have 105 mechanical and can’t fault it really. I have ridden a SRAM electronic shift and it was very nice. But essential, no.

    • jaek@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      I guess I’m old fashioned too, but it’s pretty funny when you’re out on a ride and your mate has to stop because their derailleur ran out of batteries.

      I’ve ever had a shifter cable fail on me in 20 years of riding, including stints as a bike courier and two continental circumnavigations.