Well I meant all competitors. And by cyclist I mean do you currently cycle on the regular. I don’t wear lycra either since I ride downhill.
Downhill and Enduro racers use wireless groupsets pretty much 100% of the time now. A few grams means a lot to guys where 1st and 2nd place are separated by a few hundredths of a second.
Since everyone uses it and it comes on higher end bikes it has and will start to filter down to the lower end bikes and eventually everything will be wireless. Same thing happened with disc brakes and single chainring groupsets.
@teft@psx_crab electronic shifting *is* a bit lighter, but its main advantage is that it’s just better. exact, reliable shifts, every time. i don’t think electronic braking’s gonna catch on though, for obvious reasons. and cable-operated shifting isn’t ever going to go away because there’s only so many people that shifting performance is going to matter to
Well I meant all competitors. And by cyclist I mean do you currently cycle on the regular. I don’t wear lycra either since I ride downhill.
Downhill and Enduro racers use wireless groupsets pretty much 100% of the time now. A few grams means a lot to guys where 1st and 2nd place are separated by a few hundredths of a second.
Since everyone uses it and it comes on higher end bikes it has and will start to filter down to the lower end bikes and eventually everything will be wireless. Same thing happened with disc brakes and single chainring groupsets.
@teft @psx_crab electronic shifting *is* a bit lighter, but its main advantage is that it’s just better. exact, reliable shifts, every time. i don’t think electronic braking’s gonna catch on though, for obvious reasons. and cable-operated shifting isn’t ever going to go away because there’s only so many people that shifting performance is going to matter to