While wireless derailleurs may offer fast and precise electronic shifting, the things ain’t cheap. That’s where the NXS system comes in, as it’s promised to make existing cable-actuated mountain bike derailleurs wireless for less than eighty dollars.
Exactly. Derailleurs are the worst part of the bike to fix and calibrate (except spokes), but by fuck are they good at what matters. They’re a few parts utilizing tension and springs to hold a chain in place.
Someone should invent a sort of ROHLOFF which mounts as a standard derailleur (or as a disc brake). That would be a real advance by taking the best of both worlds.
I want a Rohloff but I’d have to sell a kidney or something lol
Well yes, for sure it’s overpriced like many bike parts when you compare them to motorbikes equivalents