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Electronic DA Di2 launched

Postby Elliot M » Fri Aug 01, 2008 2:22 pm

http://www.dura-ace.com/start.htm
Click on products > Di2
You buy as an upgrade to DA7900
In the shops Jan 09
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Re: Electronic DA Di2 launched

Postby Snoop Doug » Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:04 pm

I don't understand. Is this for people whos fingers are too weedy to change their own gears. Whassapoint :?

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Re: Electronic DA Di2 launched

Postby Keith » Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:16 pm

[quote="Snoop Doug"]I don't understand. Is this for people whos fingers are too weedy to change their own gears. Whassapoint :?

Snoop


Snoop, why don't you post Shimano a letter telling them. Use that old typewriter of yours. :wink:

If it's lighter, more precise and more reliable, then I'm all for electric shift.
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Re: Electronic DA Di2 launched

Postby mrP(Boonen)VT » Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:21 pm

[quote]If it's lighter, more precise and more reliable, then I'm all for electric shift.


and the battery pack???????
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Re: Electronic DA Di2 launched

Postby Keith » Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:23 pm

Yeah that mobile phone you're lugging around is sooo heavy with its enormous battery pack. What about the weight of the cables & those compex STI levers that can now be junked?
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Re: Electronic DA Di2 launched

Postby Andy E » Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:29 pm

Any idea what price it's going to be? Interesting to see how much more than regular Dura-ace it will be..
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Re: Electronic DA Di2 launched

Postby Snoop Doug » Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:35 pm

[quote="Keith"]Snoop, why don't you post Shimano a letter telling them. Use that old typewriter of yours. :wink:

If it's lighter, more precise and more reliable, then I'm all for electric shift.


I've just lit a rocket up the ar5e of my favourite carrier pigeon. Shimano will be hearing from me as soon as soon as ole speedy crosses the water. Typewriter indeed, pah!! Now, has anyone seen my bakelite wireless......the Archers'll be on soon

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Re: Electronic DA Di2 launched

Postby Graham O » Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:50 pm

Just think of the fun we'll have at the cafe playing

'nab the battery'
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Re: Electronic DA Di2 launched

Postby Marky Mark » Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:53 pm

[quote="Sean Hogan - 何祥"]I wonder how many times you'll be able to recharge them?



They could always stick a dynamo on your tyre like the good old days. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I was watching the Tour when these new fangled contraptions kept failing, well one anyway :wink:
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Re: Electronic DA Di2 launched

Postby Marky Mark » Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:06 pm

Are you out tomorrow Sean? i'd like to say hello to you in the real word, not sayiny the CR is the real world!! :lol: :lol:
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Re: Electronic DA Di2 launched

Postby Andrew G » Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:07 pm

[quote="Graham O"]Just think of the fun we'll have at the cafe playing

'nab the battery'

:lol:

[quote="Sean Hogan - 何祥"]You expect kit to fail under real life test conditions. After all Pro teams test the kit they have to destruction to a degree we could never do.

The advantage they have is that everything is supplied free, only has to last one season, fitted and fettled daily by a mechanic, and should anything happen a bloke driving behind them gives them a new one before they've got a foot out the pedal.
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Re: Electronic DA Di2 launched

Postby Keith » Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:12 pm

I recon the '09 kit will be over-priced and have loads of problems, but I also reckon that by mid '11 half the Club Run will be using electric shift.
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Re: Electronic DA Di2 launched

Postby Mike I » Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:46 pm

What's all this gear changing nonsense?

Must be for people who didn't put the right sized sprocket on at the start of the ride :roll: .
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Re: Electronic DA Di2 launched

Postby Jon H » Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:49 pm

[quote="Andrew G"]The advantage they have is that everything is supplied free, only has to last one season, fitted and fettled daily by a mechanic, and should anything happen a bloke driving behind them gives them a new one before they've got a foot out the pedal.


Whereas any proper rider runs with their broken fixed-gear bike to the local blacksmiths and re-welds their forks, without the outside assistance of the blacksmith's apprentice operating the bellows of course.
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Re: Electronic DA Di2 launched

Postby Ivor » Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:25 pm

OOoooooohhhhhhhh
surprised they didn't streamline the design of the battery pack though. think I'll wait for version 2.0.
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