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Well, yeah, I've ridden Di2 with a flat battery too, so I guess that's singlespeed, good point.
I'm thinking more along the lines of smashing the RD and then trying to limp along with a shortened chain though like the other peeps are talking about. I don't see why, if you still have it, you can't just use the limits on the RD. If you don't have an RD then you're gonna be riding magic gear and it's going to be shit no matter what.
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I've ridden 11-speed as singlespeed when I hadn't charged the Di2 battery properly. The first time I used it, I thought I'd charged it up via my laptop, but it stopped front shifting about 20km into a 300km, so I just chose my favourite gear and spent the rest of the day in it.
I guess it would be hard to fix a cable as securely as a Di2 mech with a flat battery is able to