>>1612728I'm not afraid of tech advancement, I just despise "tech advancement" bike industry shits out for the last 40 years, trying to trickle tech as slowly as possible while keeping people engaged, and often using completely inconsequential stuff as selling points. It's a neat trick, bike industry is still thriving instead of burning through everything they could learn from higher modes of transport by y2k and burning out, but it's garbage for consumers.
>You literally cannoot buy a decent brake for less than $200Shimano M396s are firmly in the "considerably better than cable" territory, and they are $60-80 for kit. You can do better than them on the given budget too.
>totally convinced by a series of negative verbs.Okay, let's break them down.
>expensiveSelf-explainatory
>unrepairableSmall electronics are generally unfeasible to repair, and if the failiure is mechanical you can still fuck up a simple repair because little computers expect a very particular behaviour and can't just wing it like you can.
>incompatibleBarely compatible with other sets from the same manufacturer, and you can forget about kitbashing because SHAM wants you to buy everything from them and them only.
>unmoddableYou want a shifter work with a derailleur it's not supposed to? Easy-ish with cable shifts, mill or 3d print a new pulley or file down the old one for a different pull ratio, or get one of those cable pull adapters. Di2 and eTAP will never talk to each other.
>shit on a race bikeMost people don't race, even those who buy those bikes. I'm not saying it should be a thing or justifying e-shifters, I'm just saying that I'm surprised we don't already have it considering how it's a much more compelling party trick to impress freds with than 10ms faster shifts.
>Return for repairOnly to be told they don't have spare parts and can't repair shit.
>buy newWould be reasonable-ish if you could buy a lever alone. But no, you have to at least trash a perfectly functioning caliper.
