Wireless gear shifters? What was wrong with a cable? Even if you don't want it to be a mechanical connection, you could still at least send data over that instead of wirelessly...
So, I moved to the Netherlands about four years ago. Of course I needed a bike. Since I was a child, I always fixed my bike if there was a problem. I've replaced punctured tube countless times.
Yet, in the Netherlands, I discovered that on the local bikes the gear box is a lot more complex... and you need to disassemble it in order to remove the back wheel (if you want to replace the tube). It doesn't have that many moving parts, but it's really not made with an eye for easy assembly and disassembly. Not in the field conditions. And the first time I discovered it, to my shame, I ended up pushing my bike to the bike shop to have the tube replaced. I felt like I was telling the shop owner that I peed my pants when I had to ask him to do something that should've been trivial for an adult.
I can't imagine using a wireless gear box. I'll never get on this kind of bike. Some kind of interference and you lose control of the bike? Broken far away from home: push it for hours? This thing probably needs a battery... Is it waterproof? This is such an unimaginably bad idea...
I've always wondered what happens if you are in a big pack with these kind of devices
There's no stepping on each others signal? Error-correction?
Garmin is ending ANT+ because it's not-encrypted and Europe won't allow that anymore but it would be fascinating to do an ANT+ capture next to a marathon of 50,000 people, how does it deal with all that signal noise (BLE is on same frequency)
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 26.1 ms ] threadHere's a bit of a marginally related rant.
So, I moved to the Netherlands about four years ago. Of course I needed a bike. Since I was a child, I always fixed my bike if there was a problem. I've replaced punctured tube countless times.
Yet, in the Netherlands, I discovered that on the local bikes the gear box is a lot more complex... and you need to disassemble it in order to remove the back wheel (if you want to replace the tube). It doesn't have that many moving parts, but it's really not made with an eye for easy assembly and disassembly. Not in the field conditions. And the first time I discovered it, to my shame, I ended up pushing my bike to the bike shop to have the tube replaced. I felt like I was telling the shop owner that I peed my pants when I had to ask him to do something that should've been trivial for an adult.
I can't imagine using a wireless gear box. I'll never get on this kind of bike. Some kind of interference and you lose control of the bike? Broken far away from home: push it for hours? This thing probably needs a battery... Is it waterproof? This is such an unimaginably bad idea...
1. https://www.sram.com/en/rockshox/models/sp-rvb-axs-a2
Related Want to Win a Bike Race? Hack Your Rival's Wireless Shifters (19 points, 2024, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41253198
There's no stepping on each others signal? Error-correction?
Garmin is ending ANT+ because it's not-encrypted and Europe won't allow that anymore but it would be fascinating to do an ANT+ capture next to a marathon of 50,000 people, how does it deal with all that signal noise (BLE is on same frequency)
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