{"id":1512,"date":"2009-02-14T23:04:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T19:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2009-02-26T23:06:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T19:06:41","slug":"cycling-enters-the-electronic-age-with-a-new-gear-shifting-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1512","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Enters the Electronic Age With a New Gear-Shifting System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1513\" title=\"gear190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/gear190-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"gear190\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bicycle, one of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most resolutely human-powered machines, will join the long list of devices that have switched from the manual to the electronic when a new gear system makes its debut this weekend at the Tour of California.<\/p>\n<p>Although the battery-powered derailleur by Shimano promises to bring ease and accuracy to changing gears by enabling riders to shift with a light touch to two electronic switches, traditionalists worry that it may erode the basic tenets of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153People choose bicycles precisely because &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/14\/sports\/cycling\/14gears.html?_r=1&amp;ref=sports\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bicycle, one of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most resolutely human-powered machines, will join the long list of devices that have switched from the manual to the electronic when a new gear system makes its debut this weekend at the Tour of California. Although the battery-powered derailleur by Shimano promises to bring ease and accuracy to changing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,40,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-new-bike-products-testing","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}