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Di2/EPS on Time trial bikes?
Martin318is:
Does it make any sense to put electronic shifting onto a time trial bike if it means that you have to do this with the battery?
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/photos/giro-ditalia-time-trial-tech/224821
Surely given the obsession with smoothe surfaces and hiding brake calipers etc this position will negate any benefits
usedtobefast:
just something else that can go wrong. and electric circuits always do at the exact wrong time. but mechanical stuff fails all the time, at the wrong time, so it is a wash. it is evolution of the sport. if had money for it, why not? i don't, so no worries.
Martin318is:
oh dont get me wrong - if the shifting is so much better then great.
BUT
How the hell can you (the rider) justify the switch to electronic if it means having a sodding great square box attached to your bottom bracket - just after you have also spent the design money on hiding your rear brake, etc...
usedtobefast:
--- Quote from: Martin318is on May 31, 2012, 02:38 ---oh dont get me wrong - if the shifting is so much better then great.
BUT
How the hell can you (the rider) justify the switch to electronic if it means having a sodding great square box attached to your bottom bracket - just after you have also spent the design money on hiding your rear brake, etc...
--- End quote ---
that one is hard to figure... motor sports(at the upper levels) would not jerry rig stuff like that. smaller budgets when all is said and done.
youngblood:
Actually, I think electronic on TT/tri makes far more sense than road.
Person goes into a sharp turn with hands on base bars, he can come out of the turn shifting gears from the brake position instead of moving back up to bar ends. Save time and safer. I was able to sell two bikes merely because of this feature.
They were both triathletes so bike handling skill not the best, BUT, it worked for them and they are very satisfied customers.
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