Originally Posted by
Badger6
Now that I can get behind. Note, yuou’re the first person to cay that clearly. Usually it’s just members here complaining about how the manufacturers are forcing things people don’t want into the market. E.g., disc brakes and now electronic shifting. They did it because they are certain the market wants it. But, the cost, well, that’s are hard point to argue, because from the personal finance perspective it keeps raising the price of entry. That said, I’m betting that Shimano is banking that “normalization” of the pricing over time will overcome the initial objections that some folks rationally express.
I said exactly that about discs. The price argument was always based on, for example, comparing R3 rim and R3 disc. There was no R2 disc, however, so the true price delta between “rim” and “disc” was much higher (and I’d be curious to see if they subsidized the disc price with the R3 premium, as carmakers do).