Campagnolo Electronic Group Getting Closer to Production

Hopefully some resourceful retailer will learn to reprogram the stuff to work with 10s Shimano spacing – finally making compatibility issues moot.

Why stop there? Why not make it compatible with Shimano shifters/deraillers as well?

Or just use Shimano.

NOW IF THEY COULD ONLY MAKE A BIGGER BATTERY… MAYBE SOMETHING OUT OF A SMALL BOAT…

So ‘reprogramming’ for bike gears as if it is a macbook. I guess that this ‘reprogramming’ would be realized by a pc or mac but is going to be done by a computer for sure. No what if this e-shifting catch a virus from the pc while being reprogramming? Do I get an antivirus software as well?
I suspect that within 2 years there is going to be an iphone app for blocking, via bluetooth, your opponent’s e-shifting while racing at Tour de France. What a race that would be.

Who cares? Stupid money for something that’s marginally better than the technology it replaced, if someone can justify spending out for ever so slightly quicker shifts for their club rides go ahead but even at pro level the benefits are tiny. Both Shimano and Campag systems weigh more than the groupos they replace so save 150 grams, the cost of another bike, learn to shift properly and buy a Red groupo or stick to the old system.
Sure it’s new technology and R&D costs need to be recouped etc. but until the cost and weight are similar to conventional shifters I’ll be leaving it to the fan boys with the lycra clad beer bellies.

Noooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’ll be airbags and reversing cameras next! Hold on, that weird jacket thing that was doing the rounds about a year ago and that rear facing camera/bike computer thing just got funding or something. What is the world coming to?
Seriously though, I love new bike tech but there comes a point when it’s just unnecessary, shame this won’t go the same way as Shimano’s pneumatic shifting system or Mavic’s Zap.

Given that the shift performance seems to pass muster, and there are new features (auto-trim)… if the wiring and battery maintenance of these systems prove to be less work overall, for the user (than with conventional cable driven systems), then they will probably win. Most people who like wrenching still like riding more. I think that keeping track of a battery with the capacities that they’re offering is a lot less work than replacing shift cables and housing! Overall, considering the market price of the individual electromechanical components that are included in these setups, this should make entire drivetrains with excellent shifting performance considerably cheaper, in the long run.

While there will continue to be custom modifications for custom setups, expecting real-time hacking is a bit like when people expected car ECUs to become a hacking problem. There will always be easier ways to mess with someone’s bike.

On a much more trivial note, I know that I am not the only one who has had their fingers get so cold in a race that I started missing shifts because I wasn’t pushing the levers far enough… not to mention having even colder tips, where shifting was impossible without pulling from the hand on the opposite side.

NOW THAT IS SOME GERIATRIC SH*T. I WOULD NEVER WANT MY BIKE TO DEPEND ON A BATTERY FOR ANY REASON.
AND LETS FACE IT, EVERYTHING LOOKS SO CHUNKY.