Just a bit of interest/fun. So how many of our bikes are on mechanical gearing and how many on electronic? poll

I have a mountain bike and winter road bike on mechanical and my summer road bike electronic. I love how crisp and reliable the electronic shifting is, don’t think I’d buy another bike with mechanical shifting if electronic was an option, it’s worth every penny.

On my commuter road bike i have mechanical, on my normal road bike and my triathlon bike i have electronic. But in the future i will definitly buy a commuter bike with electronic shifting, because it’s so much more fun.

[image] philrcook: I have a mountain bike and winter road bike on mechanical and my summer road bike electronic. Why is that? Don’t trust electronic in the winter?

Etap on the TT bike, Mechanical on the others (and the wife’s!)

TT bike is Di2, road bikes mechanical.

Di2 on my Slice TT bike. It’s awesome and lovely in every way… I have had it fail on me twice in the past though and lock me in the big ring… I thought I’d have it again in a heart beat. But i didn’t… - Mechanical on my new Cervelo road bike.

I had a new race bike built this year and was all set to put Di2 on it, like my TT bike, which is superb. Ironically I was talked out of it by the bike shop (that happens to be owned by our club captain). Reasons being it’s likely at some point I’ll crash and trash shifters/mechs. When I do I can…

Same here; when/if SRAM comes out with a Force 1 electronic rear derailleur, I’ll do that for the Tri bike but I don’t feel like cobbling it together and not using a clutch derailleur.

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philrcook October 11, 2018, 2:03pm 9

The opposite really, I’d prefer electronic on everything, especially winter but finances don’t allow.

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