Hold on to your helmets as the electronic gears are a coming to us
Yes I know some of you will know
But for those who don’t its a WoW factor

My colleague is in Japan right now testing these out

Excited we are in the shop I must say

I heard that it’ll only work with 650b wheels.

Cool story bro.

Excited we are in the shop I must say

With 650b wheels talk like Yoda you must.

650b fat bike only I heard

Will they electrify the trail (as opposed to bringing it alive)?

It’s about time too, I am surprised it has taken shimano so long to get around to doing an electronic groupset for mountain bikes.

It is always good to revisit 2012’s news, that was a good year.

Will they electrify the trail (as opposed to bringing it alive)?

Look upon it as a sort of defibrillator. Bringing back to life previously dead trails…

What if I don’t wear a helmet?

Sure it’ll look lovely wrapped around the first rock I encounter/in my wheel.

no thanks. one of the beauties of cycling is that, once built, you provide all the energy it needs.

I might relent if they were powered from a dynamo.

Well the di2 is coming for sure
I will be testing it as soon as on one of our test bikes

Rorschach – Member
Will they electrify the trail (as opposed to bringing it alive)?

Surely that’s the best way to bring something that’s apparently dead back to life

I knew there was someone else

It’s looking like it’ll be available to mere mortals soon which is nice news. Unfortunately I won’t be rolling in the spare mullah to have it on my bicycle but I may test ride something to see how it performs and I’d like to see how it copes the wild welsh weather and trails by me, though some of the Di2 road stuff has seen some mentally harsh conditions.

Looks cool.

Double post.

2×12 only tho (

Not exactly a scoop this, is it? It doesn’t take a genius to work out that Shimano have been working on this for a while.

Will your next revelation be that there’s an Argetine man in Rome who leads a major world religion, or perhaps an exposé of ursine toiletary habits?

A mate has been running a weatherproofed Di2 & XTR on his Scale for a good 18 months now & he is far from unique.

Who’d put electric gears on an mtb?!?

A nut job who just wondered if it could be done.

It makes more sense on an MTB, where the self triming would be really helpful. Absolutely no reason why electronic shifting wouldn’t be more resistant to harsh conditions than current mechanical set-ups.

The only real issue for most of us will be the cost of crash damage replacement parts. I will wait until it trickles down to xt level or even slx. But I will defiantly be interested in it.

It makes more sense on an MTB, where the self triming would be really helpful. Absolutely no reason why electronic shifting wouldn’t be more resistant to harsh conditions than current mechanical set-ups.

Yep, as above. Powered shifting through mud as well, all good. The large range of gears on MTB, especially in 2×11 or whatever would really benefit from Di2 as well. I’d ride it.

flange – Member
Who’d put electric gears on an mtb?!?

😆

What tyres for electric gears?

Sounds like a recipe for disaster…

Automatic gearboxes are where it’s really at 😉

Heard some ‘interesting’ stories about the electronic gears….

Personaly I can’t wait till I sensible cost di2 mtb is out there ,
My only concern is I think the SRAM type 2 Is better than shimano clutch mechs

i did this years ago

So did Flange – hence his posts…

I hope they do single ring. Ultegra Di2 needs the front mech for the rear to work.

According to Fairwheel you only need the front mech to set it up.Once its done you can disconnect it.
It’s on the fairwheels forum somewhere.

Can’t wait for Di2 SS

According to Fairwheel you only need the front mech to set it up.Once its done you can disconnect it.
It’s on the fairwheels forum somewhere.

Still need to buy a £200 mech just to set it up, bit too far IMO!

I like the look of the Di2 Alfine. Maybe with a Gates belt drive, fitted to my Jones with truss fork. 69 obviously…

Still need to buy a £200 mech just to set it up, bit too far IMO!

I expect it to be more aimed at race set-ups, at least initially. So I don’t see them going with the single front ring.

What would be more interesting would be if they just had a single shifter that worked out how best to select both cassette and chainring position.

I expect it to be more aimed at race set-ups, at least initially. So I don’t see them going with the single front ring.

A huge number of racers are now running single rings, I’d say it’s the majority now.

Do I have to put my 11 speed XX1 in the bin already?

I’d say it’s the majority now.

Only the sram sponsored ones 😉

Nope, plenty of Shimano users running 1×10. Myself included.

I’m not just talking WC level, but across the board.