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Theres zero affordable etap stuff available to me - new or second hand.
Where as 11sp di2 is pretty easily available to me. And everything else I own is 11sp mechanical road. Nice be able to swap out wheels etc.
Also #racewhatyoucanaffordtoreplaceI would love to try a SRAM etap groupset. But I don't have any affiliation with sram yet and even at trade it's a very expensive thing for me to purchase.
But also I think it is very on brand for Hulsroy Cycles to be tinkering and hacking the systems. . TRP Hylex might not be very pretty levers but they are extremely comfortable to me.
Hulsroy-
yeah cool. just chucking an idea into the mix!
from the very limited research i've done, an etap rear mech should be compatible with shimano cassettes as long as the speeds are the same - not sure if it's possible to hack / change the speeds of the mech?
so in theory all that's required to change a compatible ss bike to etap would be a chain, rear mech, and the blips.the other thing i'd looked at was something like this external device which converts a mechanical mech to wireless electric, but looks pretty janky. i think it's based on the x-shifter that was on kickstarter a few years ago.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005562472155.html
bigshape
any reason to not use etap axs with wireless blips?
or do you already have the di2 bits?
I've been toying with the idea as it seems like an easy way to add gears to my charge plug which has trp hylex brakes, without changing the levers or adding additional cables.