Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley So far 37 comments have dropped on last week’s story about replacing an old worn-out Shimano Di2 electric shifting front derailleur. I closed the article asking for your thoughts on e-shifting and you delivered! Thank you. If you missed the story, catch up here: Thoughts on Wearing Out my…
Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley Way back in 2009 Shimano introduced their first electric-shifting Dura-Ace 7970 Di2 groupset. Di2 is short for Digital Integrated Intelligence (Di2 = DII, get it?). In case you haven’t tried or followed the electric shifting trend, I’ll explain what DII means in terms of advantages (feel free to scroll…
Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley This week, I’ve got some wheel-compatibility suggestions for Mark Pryor, the co-founder of Alameda Velo (“we are goal-focused everyday cyclists”). They’re in the San Francisco Bay area. If you’re interested, learn more here www.alamedavelo.com. It turns out that Mark and I met during the Low-Key Hill Climbs, fun events…
Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley We received an SOS the other day from a reader named Barb. It came in the form of a comment to one of our Quick Tips titled Learn to Ride a Straight Line, which appeared over a year ago. You can read that here: Learn to Ride a Straight…
Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley As I have mentioned a couple of times in this column recently, we were traveling around the USA in our Class C RV a little of June and almost all of July. In case you’re curious about the route, we left our home here in Santa Cruz, California and…
