Too lazy to shift? Buy an automatic.... If you dare.

Dino Sarti

 I found this link on the DC Rainmaker week in review and I thought I would pass it along.

This system promises to take your Di2, link it to your Smart Phone with bluetooth technology and then shift your bike for you.  Automatically!  Apparently, it will track your cadnece and speed and do all the shifting to optimize your cadnence for you....

This is scary actually.  My fear is that the machines will gain salf awareness and begin to hunt us down like two wheeled terminators!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22478-smartphone-gives-bikes-an-automatic-gearbox.html

harrast

Maybe the CIA or NSA will invent a bike gear jamming signal that will shift all the Di2 bikes permanently into first gear during my next IM. Then I might have a chance;-)

John Withrow

 I take the scary-ness of this discussion even one step further...   Neural shifting.  not kidding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWzdWMapJ-c

 

Chris Kuebert

www.bikerumor.com has a brief write up as well on it

how lazy are we getting?  hahaha

Steve West

@ ;John - That's what I was talking about in the other thread!!

cgres123

no clutch needed

Cdiangelo

They better get the sync and security right. Imagine a peloton of riders all thinking of shifting at different times. Sabotage the guy ahead of you on the hill by shifting his gears

Dino Sarti

@Withrow - That is nuts!!! That is like the Clint Eastwood movie "Firefox" when he controlled the jet by thinking in Russian. Wow!

That iPhone mount is also totally sick and ridiculous....