Electronic Groupsets.....good idea or utterly pointless for most people ?

[Mangizmo]

Electronic groupsets look great. I'd love to try one. I suspect they wouldn't suit me TBH.

Also, why derail this into a thread about environmental issues? (Rhetorical question - doesn't require an answer). It's not a route you want to go down unless you're a childless hermit who lives under a rock and lives on grass. As you're on an internet forum, I find that hill to die on laughable.

Fwiw; Retrobike is a pretty amazing place with some truly wonderful people. Its also a generally positive and supportive community. You've received some negative responses (by retrobike standards) to several of your threads now (Guilty, Your Honour), as it seems that you just want to rant (albeit carefully, and perhaps passive-aggressively) about modern bikes and the price of them. Most of us are cyclists, not just retrogrouches*, so don't feel the need to bash everything modern.
I don't want to make you feel unwelcome, you are, and it's not my place to judge who's right or wrong, or even to stifle your right to an opinion, but perhaps you've misread the audience slightly? Get involved with some of the awesome people and general silliness here, pull up a chair and hide your wallet. But, maybe leave some of the resentment at the door?

2 wheels = good.

Peace.




* LGF, I'm looking at you.

Its OK, I wont post again, my comments are all tongue in cheek, you seem to have missed the point but I kind of expected that.....Goodbye all

 

[rwm1962]

I will wait for the advocates to extol the virtues and then elucidate my reasons for dismissing such nonsense

 

[dorset boy]

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Go with that Scottish judgement. Murder not proven.

 

[Betsy]

Its OK, I wont post again, my comments are all tongue in cheek, you seem to have missed the point but I kind of expected that.....Goodbye all

Oww! .. do.. the irony wasn't entirely wasted.. I was laughing along with you and at you

 

[Russell]

Is lithium mining more or less environmentally sound than steel and plastic production required to produce gear cables?

 

[novocaine]

Is lithium mining more or less environmentally sound than steel and plastic production required to produce cables?

On par.

 

[Betsy]

If we produce them in the UK, that's bad but if they're produced in a far off land and transported to the UK, that's fine

 

[Russell]

On par.

Awkward.

 

[My_Teenage_Self]

Is lithium mining more or less environmentally sound than steel and plastic production required to produce cables?

I'd need a really long extension lead for my daily commute, so Cables?

 

[novocaine]

Awkward.

But shhh, because we will make up some statististic to proof it's still better.

Lithium mining now is what oil sand was in the late 2000s. Asset strip as fast as possible before it gets regulated and you have to do it safely and environmentally friendly.