On 2/03/2017 10:35 AM, Patrick Moore wrote: > Now this is a real benefit for some riders. Again, I think that > electric shifting would probably benefit those who are less > experienced or who simply are not interested in the (minor) art of > shifting. > > I really think that some sort of sealed transmission (sealed from the > elements; sealed from fiddling; sealed from impact damage), with > "black box" electronic shifting, would make a lot of sense for many > riders. (I do realize that your wife's XT system is not entirely > "black box.") > > Such "black box" transmissions would take a good part of the fun out > of riding, for me, but I can see their uses.
Well, my touring bike has had a Rohloff hub on it for about 15 years. The Rohloff is pretty much a black box - all the smarts and indexing are inside the hub, the twist shifter is merely a low tech device for pulling on one of two cables depending on which way you twist it. I mounted the shifter on drop bars like so: http://www.users.on.net/~njpayne/bikestuff/rohloff/index.htm. These days, there are multiple options for shifting the hub - see for example, http://cyclemonkeylab.blogspot.com.au/2016/02/tech-talk-shifter-options-for-use-with.html. Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
