I reckon the lower price of Ui2 will open up possibilities for some cool hacks/customisations etc. You can imagine purchasing just the front and rear derailleurs and the cheap thumbie sprint buttons. Basically that’s all you need to get started. Combine that with a seat tube mounted battery hack and it’s looking pretty swweeett.
Actually I wonder how much the retail price for the front and rear derailleurs only are?
as opposed to
(although the words “constant variable” are troubling to me as an econometrician)
Oh it was wordplay!
my computer took me here: Rubrics | Create grading rubrics the easy way.
curious. people have been saying “rubric” a lot at my workplace lately. must find out what it means.
edit: back on topic - the small number of riders using Di2 that I’ve talked to reckon it’s good gear.
the value proposition isn’t there for me yet.
I have already posted this but I think it shows you what you can do with di2
Interbike 2010: Fairwheel Bikes Di2 Mountain Bike - BikeRadar
Don’t think this doesn’t happen now. In stage 15 of the 2000 tour, Pantani smashed the field near the end of the climb. Lance didn’t go with him, because he knew that he couldn’t sustain the VAM and that even though Pantani danced away, he wouldn’t be able to get enough time to threaten the Yellow Jersey but Lance going could threaten his defence of the GC over the next few stages. Behind Lance’s decision to let Pantani go, was direct phone link between Lance and his mate Dr Ferrari who, from watching the race in his home on live TV, did the math on the wattage Pantani was putting out v Lance and worked out that it was not sustainable for Lance to go with him given the distance to the finish. It was a key decision in Lance keeping the Yellow.
This was ten years ago, so you can imagine this kind of math based advice is more sophisticated now than it was then. Riders now are pretty much told what to do by the DS, and just put out the power and steer. While it may be more apparent that some of the romance of the sport would go with this sort of electronic equipment, I am not so sure that it would be a far cry from where we are now.
Brilliant ! This bit put me off though, …“the price for just the bike itself is estimated at between US$12,000-13,000 and the costs surrounding the custom brain are almost innumerable.”
Yeah but imagine the points youd get at the country club when you rock up on it.
ftfy
what will said. there are a number of teams that broadcast their HRs and power readings to the team car already. in fact you can get data for some of the riders live during the race (HTC IIRC did it during last years TdF) on the 'net.
Garmin publish their Garmin data after each race so you can see just how rubbish you are compared to them.
electronic gear shifting is a complete non issue with regards to the whole ‘rider control’ situation when you still have the DS talking directly to each rider while they have a laptop and calculator in the car, and a person on the phone with a tv in front of them (tvs got banned from the team cars).
I’m doing a search for this stuff, is it on the Garmin site? Or Garmin cervelo?
EDIT: found it.
Johan Van Summeren - Paris Roubaix Winning Ride! by garmin-cervelo at Garmin Connect - Details
Similar to the Fairwheel Di2 MTB, check out this Ti supercommuter with fully integrated Di2
Stealth UltraCommuter:: Titanium :: Bertone Edition | Firefly Bicycles
Schwing !
Amazing. See what I mean about the possibilities of awesome hacks?
Speechless.
I want.
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Seriously amazing, but needs moar racks/mudguards/lighting to be a supercommuter.
+1
But WOW