lightheir wrote:
JasoninHalifax wrote:
lightheir wrote:
JasoninHalifax wrote:
lightheir wrote:
Wireless shifting - can it go 'obsolete' over time, such as finding spare parts? Saw another thread before where someone bought a used DI2 bike off probikecloset and found that he was unable to find needed spare parts. I was going to go wireless shifting for fun, but I'm having real second thoughts about it after realizing that could possibly happen, since I don't upgrade my stuff regularly (2008 Cervelo p2c)Yup.
Already seen it with Etap, and 1st gen Di2.
But then, it’s the same for mechanical. I’ve made the decision to “upgrade”, if I can, my road bike to 10 speed, if I can find a set of shifters. Scouring eBay for what I want, I can’t just walk into a shop and buy a set of 10s dura ace shifters, and going to 11 means upgrading pretty much everything.
Not really the same though. I am still 10 speed and can buy replacement parts very easily albeit not the dura ace latest and greatest.
Different from not being able to buy an obsolete blip box with no alternative.
Well, the only current Shimano 10 speed parts are not compatible with older 10 speed parts. Talking about shifters and derailleur, which is the apples to apples comparison. Brakes / cranks /chains / cassettes are no different from electronic to mechanical. Also, I bought dura ace in the first place because I want that shift quality and feel. If I break a lever, I don’t want to replace that with Sora level.
And I’ve been around long enough to remember when dura ace wasn’t compatible with Ultegra. (7-8 speed days of yore).
Is the bolded above actually true?
I'm still using a 2008 era 10sp DA derailleurs and they play fine with new 10sp chains and cassettes.
My other bike got upgraded by myself about 2 years ago from Sora to whatever the most current 10sp Tiagra groupset was at that time, and I can interchange cassettes and chains with the 2008 DA 10sp stuff as if there was no difference.
At least with my generation of 10sp, it has been all compatible.
cassettes and chains are fine (I think I said that, but they don't change whether you are running electronic gears or not). Its the derailleurs that don't work with the shifters. The cable pull has changed.
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JasoninHalifax: Aug 12, 20 12:35