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Has anybody knows about what the team confidis bike they are using.? |
I watch the tour last night and the confidis bike was using push botton shifter with a battery operated.Is it the new tech for the bike so far?Anybody from bike mechanics knows about that new type of technology.I would like to know how accurate it is and a good for the rider. Ronny Scholz (Gerolsteiner)used an electronic Dura-ace last year and reckoned it shifted five times faster than a normal shift.!!! Just like formula one, it seems that prototypes developed during racing may one day see the light of day as a consumer product. Watch this space. EDIT: Nice to you amend your answer ct to incorporate my racing car shifting referrence. A bit sneaky but I can live with it! It is a Campy part... Not sure its purpose.. could be more accurate, ligher. Dunno, not many people at all use it. Battery is in water bottle cage i believe... cool stuff. Kinda like paddle shifters in car racing The bike they are using is a Time. Their frames with crank, stem, headset and fork run from 5 to 6 thousand. Electronic shifting came out a long time ago, but this is the first I've heard of it being used effectively. It's not a new thing, it's an old thing revisited. When they first came out they couldn't get the bugs worked out so it went by the wayside. Bicycling Magazine They're riding Time bikes. fwiw, Time is one of the only bike mfrs that buys raw carbon fiber and weaves it into sheets in their own factory (most buy pre-woven sheets). electronic shifting comes around every once in a while. Mavic was the first with the Zap group in the early-mid 90's, then Mektronic more recently. Shimano and Campy have made prototypes but none have been available to consumers... yet. |
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