On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 21:45 -0800, CycloFiend wrote: > on 2/16/09 7:37 PM, Doug Peterson at [email protected] wrote: > > > After the centerpull brake, derailer & quick release, most everything else > > has been refinement, as opposed to truly new technology. So STI & Ergo move > > the shifting mechanism to a more convenient location, and modern drive > > trains offer many times the number of gears & range of gearing, and modern > > manufacturing methods allow more precise tolerances. But the technology > > itself is more like 60 years old. I would submit that e-shifting is a > > refinement, in that it is a different method of performing the same task, > > e.g., moving the chain between sprockets. > > And recall that Mavic was the first with the electronic shifting - Zap and > Mektronic.
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