Looks to be an electric device...so you should have a button to change gears
mis shifts under power lines or cell phone towers!
From what I was reading, the electric shifting would be a future upgrade. The basic cable model has a self tensioning cable, which is a big upgrade. No more mis-shifts due to cable stretch.
We even import our smilies these days.mis shifts under power lines or cell phone towers!
and did these smilies come from an eastern bloc country?
What I got out of it was that the Electronic is a future thing, and Electronic would be the one I would be worried about breaking, If its cable operated, even if its using a gear rack and pinion system inside of it, it should still move freely if yo uhit it. Basically it looks like they removed the body of a standard derailer, and replaced it with a rack and pinion. I dont think its going to be any better, other than the self tensioning, than any other derailer out there now. At the same time, I want to know when I can get them, because I have a bunch of customers that always want the latest and greatest for there bikes, I know I can sell the **** out of thesei agree, the self correcting auto-tension is a cool idea.
however, with the rack and pinion gears in there, i wonder if the derailleur is free to move inward, in case it gets smacked by a rock. otherwise, one solid hit from a rock, and all those gears are done.
30% lighter and ~600% more expensive.Clearly THIS is where it's at for mechs:
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Lightweight_RD_-_Rear_Derailleur/5360040339/
that was neat. used two cables (one ea for upshifting & downshifting) on a gripshift, so there was no return spring.
anybody remember this one?
Shimano did that about 30 or 40 years ago.
The original idea came from a french bike in 1915 or something.
Yes, it's hydraulic derailluer from Germany. This is what I'd like to see as finally the LAST stage of derailluer era.
A lot of people don't know how to bleed brakes, fewer know how to bleed dampers. Could you imagine the chaos if people had to bleed their shifters/deraillers too?
S.A.F.E. or something close to that made a hydraulic shift line for cabled setups that replaced only the cable. MBA did a write-up some time in the mid-nineties on a fully hydraulic Boulder they built with a custom faring.
I thought it was one cable looped? I had the chance to ride it once...I thought it was cool, but I was also really young
