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Yeah Im definitely not jumping on it, not an early adopter :) Doesnt SRAM have a patent on having the battery on the derailleur? Might have something to do with its disappearance...
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Doesnt SRAM have a patent on having the battery on the derailleur?
That’s what I’d thought too.
I’ve read on the internets that sram closed a factory in southern China and it left a lot of ex-sram employees in the region who went on to start up these new drivetrain brands…Maybe the sram lawyers have been busy
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Doesnt SRAM have a patent on having the battery on the derailleur?
That doesn't mean you can't do it, you just need to agree a patent license with SRAM.
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Doesn't seem that much cheaper to make up for the fact you have to deal with a Chinese company. It's also strange that it used to be available on Aliexpress but is gone now, also gone
from the Wheel top website.