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Chak
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What bars are on yours, because the reach looks spot on.
The old Salsa Cowbell that have about 76mm of reach, 126mm drop, and 12° flare, that was before gravel bike become a thing, really comfortable, think mine is about 6 years old.
I'm gonna get the new Salsa Cowbell that have a 68mm reach and 115mm drop in 46cm as the shorter reach work better with the longer hood of the hydraulic levers.
I got used to the 44cm width that I can't seemed to go back to my old 42cm bar, bike felt easier to ride on wider drop bar.
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...and to make money, these companies would do..what exactly?
Sell the shifters/derailleur (if it's integrated like SRAM + Shimano ones)/other electronics/software/etc.
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That's what electronic shifting should have been all along. Just set your limits, tell it how many sprockets, tell it how many chainrings and have it automatically correct the indexing so it doesn't go out over time. Break your derailleur? Just buy anything from the shop and correct the pull ratios. Want to upgrade to 12-speed? Just buy a new cassette and chain, correct the limits and type "12" instead of "11".
Wish it was less ugly though. Maybe integrate it into the derailleur (with the ability to swap cage lengths) like the SRAM/Shimano ones. And it's super noisy if you watch the video. Also not sure about using Bluetooth, but I don't have any better suggestions.
Edit: I suppose what I'm proposing is the computer equivalent of Linux, where you do everything yourself and spend half your time solving frustrating niche problems instead of just using the thing, as opposed to the current Shimano/SRAM equivalent equivalent of Mac, where you can only do what they want you to do and when it breaks you throw it in the bin and buy a new one.