Old 09-19-22, 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by himespau
I have to admit to being intrigued by wireless e-shifting. Not enough to spend that kind of money on it, but laziness in building things up makes me vaguely intrigued by the idea of not having to run cables (or replace them once every 3-5 years).
my theory for years is that wireless will eventually go down to BSO especially set up as 1x as ti will be cheaper than running a shift cable.

as much as I don't like sram and electronic shifting a 1x with big rear cassette, no front derailler and the wireless rear derailler can be a super clean build....have seen a number of pictures of builds like this from Dave Kirk
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