Considering 1x for road bike

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by tomato coupe

The push to 1x has largely been driven by SRAM which, deserved or not, has a less-than-stellar reputation for front derailleur performance. It's difficult to believe that the former was not influenced (at least somewhat) by the latter.

Glad somebody said it...'unfortunately', with etap, ya still have that left hand shifter...

[Dave]

Originally Posted by oldpotatoe

Glad somebody said it...'unfortunately', with etap, ya still have that left hand shifter...

Which is much better than only having two small levers so close together that you're likely to hit the wrong one with winter gloves. Great for the one handed riders though.