Wednesday, March 26, 2008

New Dura Ace- New Frontiers In Uglyness

Internal cable routing? Gasp. Were could they go from here? perhaps moving to single thumb lever, double tap shifting system. Thusly allowing they brake levers to return to their sole proper function, braking.

It seems that the brake calipers have also goten, a new more unrefined robo-cop esque make over

And perhaps the biggest shocker of them all, (you may have seen this before) a carbon fiber crank, manufactured by Shimano! But fear not alloy loyalist, its merely an aluminum crankset warped in carbon fiber.

3 comments:

bikesgonewild said...

...i hardly ever capitalize anything but that 'stuff' is UGLY...

Anonymous said...

Just so you know the stuff that you are looking at is in prototype form. If you look it is machined and not forged like the rest of shimano's parts. Most likely not the finished product!

erik k said...

annon.. yes you are definitely correct but its still fun to make fun of them none the less. Also as far as internal cable routing goes I'm pretty sure that it made it to the new Dura Ace coming out this summer