<https://www.bikeradar.com/features/opinion/bring-back-mechanical-shimano-ultegra?>I've been ridingt the Ultegra electronic for a couple of months now and while the rear shifting is quite reliable the front requires continuous adjustment. I really prefer mechanical and have largely changed over to LTWoo. It has the same cable pull ratio as Shimano so long arm Shimano rear derailleurs can be used for loe gear rtios. Manual shifting is king.
Kinda interesting that there seems to be a market for higher end MTB mechanical groupsets, at least Shimano believes so, but not Road.
Maybe impact and water ingress?
On Fri Jun 19 16:49:01 2026 Roger Merriman wrote:
<https://www.bikeradar.com/features/opinion/bring-back-mechanical-shimano-ultegra?>
Kinda interesting that there seems to be a market for higher end MTB
mechanical groupsets, at least Shimano believes so, but not Road.
Maybe impact and water ingress?
I've been ridingt the Ultegra electronic for a couple of months now and
while the rear shifting is quite reliable the front requires continuous adjustment. I really prefer mechanical and have largely changed over to LTWoo. It has the same cable pull ratio as Shimano so long arm Shimano
rear derailleurs can be used for loe gear rtios. Manual shifting is king.
cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Fri Jun 19 16:49:01 2026 Roger Merriman wrote:
<https://www.bikeradar.com/features/opinion/bring-back-mechanical-shimano-ultegra?>
Kinda interesting that there seems to be a market for higher end MTB
mechanical groupsets, at least Shimano believes so, but not Road.
Maybe impact and water ingress?
I pumped up the gatorskiins on the DeRosa Merak and took it out today. Unfortunately I didn't have a Gsrmin moumt on the bike and I put it in my back pocket and it got turned off so I didn't record the 30 miles. Since I was unable to ride on Tuesday it felt like I was really fast. But without the Garmin it may just have felt that way. Also the poswe meter pedals are on the Di2 Ridley,. But the merchanical 12 speed felt azbout as good as you could get.And the adcjustment was off a hair so that when you shifted it would take perhaps 5 seconds to get in the correct gear.I've been ridingt the Ultegra electronic for a couple of months now and while the rear shifting is quite reliable the front requires continuous adjustment. I really prefer mechanical and have largely changed over to LTWoo. It has the same cable pull ratio as Shimano so long arm Shimano
rear derailleurs can be used for loe gear rtios. Manual shifting is king.
No system if set up right should require continuous adjustment, the
downside for Electronic seem to be the black box nature of it, and the cost of it, they are more bulky components, my Gravel bike if I was running Electronic I would be running into clearance problems with the front mech
as they are significantly larger than the mechanical mech.
I wanted to reuse the groupset so wasn?t particularly a option I
considered, number of my cycling mates have a failures let alone the whole off road rear mech?s are kinda disposable parts ie they don?t tend to
survive rock strikes!
On Mon Jun 22 15:52:20 2026 Roger Merriman wrote:
cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Fri Jun 19 16:49:01 2026 Roger Merriman wrote:No system if set up right should require continuous adjustment, the
<https://www.bikeradar.com/features/opinion/bring-back-mechanical-shimano-ultegra?>
Kinda interesting that there seems to be a market for higher end MTB
mechanical groupsets, at least Shimano believes so, but not Road.
Maybe impact and water ingress?
I've been ridingt the Ultegra electronic for a couple of months now and
while the rear shifting is quite reliable the front requires continuous
adjustment. I really prefer mechanical and have largely changed over to
LTWoo. It has the same cable pull ratio as Shimano so long arm Shimano
rear derailleurs can be used for loe gear rtios. Manual shifting is king. >>>
downside for Electronic seem to be the black box nature of it, and the cost >> of it, they are more bulky components, my Gravel bike if I was running
Electronic I would be running into clearance problems with the front mech
as they are significantly larger than the mechanical mech.
I wanted to reuse the groupset so wasn?t particularly a option I
considered, number of my cycling mates have a failures let alone the whole >> off road rear mech?s are kinda disposable parts ie they don?t tend to
survive rock strikes!
I pumped up the gatorskiins on the DeRosa Merak and took it out today. Unfortunately I didn't have a Gsrmin moumt on the bike and I put it in my back pocket and it got turned off so I didn't record the 30 miles. Since
I was unable to ride on Tuesday it felt like I was really fast. But
without the Garmin it may just have felt that way. Also the poswe meter pedals are on the Di2 Ridley,. But the merchanical 12 speed felt azbout
as good as you could get.And the adcjustment was off a hair so that when
you shifted it would take perhaps 5 seconds to get in the correct gear.
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