SRAM goes electric....(almost official) Has Landed

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by dumptruk

Could be a nice alternative to converting track frames to geared without too much effort.

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by Gazelleer

??? :shock:

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by ergott

Ummm, no. Track frames have 120mm spacing and no hanger for the rear mech.

If you mean old road bikes with a rear horizontal drops then yes, after the rear end is respaced to 130mm. Oh, and they could take gears all along.

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by dumptruk

I guess I should have put a laugh face at the end of my post.

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by showdown

Was riding this weekend with a few SRAM employees and got the low-down on satellite shifters. They do exist and operate much like one would expect; as extensions of their respective shifter parents. They are wired into the shifters and there can be multiple locations (drops and top of the bar). They are really low profile and blend into the bar tape really easily and more like a tv remote control button than the Di2 sprint shifters or the climbing shifter box thing.

It was mentioned that while they have had these for a while the issue of bringing them to market is a big hurdle due to Shimano patenting them and just about every other thing on the planet.

In any event they exist, they work and they look pretty slick.

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by Raineman

Sram wirless in Pozzovivio's TT bike. It looks like 4 "sprint shifter" style buttons underneath the bar tape.
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But then wired into a another box (mounted on a garmin mount). Guessing it's a transmitter and the sprint shifters would plug into the normal levers on drop bars.

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by CharlesM

that's a shitload of wireless wires...

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by tinozee

Still way better than wires going all the way back to the mechs.

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by HammerTime2

CharlesM wrote:that's a shitload of wireless wires...
Those are wired wireless wires.

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tinozee wrote:Still way better than wires going all the way back to the mechs.


How so?
"Marginal gains are the only gains when all that's left to gain is in the margins."

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by deek

Definitely doesn't look nearly as polished as the road shifters.

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by beanbiken

Hmm......... my definition/expectation of a "wireless" system seems to be different to SRAM's. Me keep my DI2.
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53x12 wrote:
tinozee wrote:Still way better than wires going all the way back to the mechs.


How so?



Uhh because there aren't any wires going back to the mechs?

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tinozee wrote:
53x12 wrote:
tinozee wrote:Still way better than wires going all the way back to the mechs.


How so?



Uhh because there aren't any wires going back to the mechs?


Again. How and why is that better? There are always pros and cons to things. Can't just focus on the pros only and disregard the cons.
"Marginal gains are the only gains when all that's left to gain is in the margins."

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by tinozee

Well put it this way - I personally like the idea of having no wires to run from the shifters on the bars, along ot inside the frame, to the mechs in the very rear and center of the bike.

If that's not an improvement in your opinion that's fine too. Regarding performance and or functions, I think it's obvious I'm not discussing that, as noone has yet tried this group and given comprehensive information about it.

It was a fairly lightweight, opinion based comment. Can I take a wild guess that you use Di2 though?

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