Cosmic Kid
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| 05/11/2014 08:36 AM |
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New SRAM electronic debuts at ToC.....Bissell team mechanic has to beat back some of the best bike riders in the world. Hilarious!!
http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/05/gallery/spotted-sram-electronic-drivetrain_327147 |
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Dale
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| 05/11/2014 08:53 AM |
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"Then Tom Boonen came over, ducked under the tape, and starting grabbing the brakes"
LOL! Just like everybody does when looking at a bike-- squeeze the levers. |
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huckleberry
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| 05/11/2014 10:14 AM |
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Boonen looks like a little kid.
Love it! |
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Ride On
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| 05/11/2014 11:16 AM |
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| Boonen should have throw a leg over it and pedaled away. They wouldn't have caught him. |
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Orange Crush
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| 05/11/2014 11:53 AM |
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Haha, that's funny but of course just a setup seeing that QS ride SRAM and are on payroll. Of course a camera happened to be right there when Boonen sqeezed those brakes 
Doesn't sound like the new Campy Record proto made such a splash; they need a better marketing department.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/prototype-campagnolo-group-spotted-at-giro-ditalia |
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Hoshie
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| 05/11/2014 01:59 PM |
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Looks like they both took design inspiration from the best component maker.
J |
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jrt1045
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| 05/12/2014 10:04 AM |
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| when is the warranty/recall? |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 05/12/2014 10:48 AM |
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Some info re: the system is trickling in....if accurate, it sounds like SRAM will be using an interesting take on the shifting system.
* Both paddleses will shift the RD. It is believed that the left shifter moves to a bigger gear and the right shifter moves to an easier cog.
* Pushing in both paddles at the same time will shift the FD
An interesting approach....at first I thought it was silly, but after pondering it a bit, it makes sense and is inline with their "DoubleTap" shifting systems.
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Dale
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| 05/12/2014 10:57 AM |
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Posted By j t on 05/12/2014 10:04 AM
when is the warranty/recall?
*ouch* |
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jrt1045
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| 05/12/2014 04:10 PM |
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Paddleses, CK? guess they could use Gollum instead of the frog for all the PR stuff
That is an odd shifting pattern, it will be interesting to see in the wild |
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Keith Richards
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| 05/12/2014 04:39 PM |
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| CK, I am thinking they are taking a hint from the paddle shifters on cars now. |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 05/12/2014 10:04 PM |
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What...."paddleses" isn't the plural? 
Well spotted, Keith..... |
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jrt1045
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| 05/13/2014 08:55 AM |
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| We wants it, we needs it. Must have the paddleses. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false! |
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ChinookPass
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| 05/13/2014 01:39 PM |
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Fully wireless perhaps, according to CN. Or maybe they are just patenting it so no one else can. I suspect that contributes to why they came up with the dual-paddle control approach. Was that the only approach that doesn't violate other patents?
Wireless is cool though. A lot of frame designs are doing all sorts of gyrations to make Di2 fit and I dislike that frames are being made to work with Di2 or mechanical, but not both. I like the idea of interchangeable parts, even though that has it's own problems. |
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