Electronic groupsets look great. I'd love to try one. I suspect they wouldn't suit me TBH.
Also, why derail this into a thread about environmental issues? (Rhetorical question - doesn't require an answer). It's not a route you want to go down unless you're a childless hermit who lives under a rock and lives on grass. As you're on an internet forum, I find that hill to die on laughable.
Fwiw; Retrobike is a pretty amazing place with some truly wonderful people. Its also a generally positive and supportive community. You've received some negative responses (by retrobike standards) to several of your threads now (Guilty, Your Honour), as it seems that you just want to rant (albeit carefully, and perhaps passive-aggressively) about modern bikes and the price of them. Most of us are cyclists, not just retrogrouches*, so don't feel the need to bash everything modern.
I don't want to make you feel unwelcome, you are, and it's not my place to judge who's right or wrong, or even to stifle your right to an opinion, but perhaps you've misread the audience slightly? Get involved with some of the awesome people and general silliness here, pull up a chair and hide your wallet. But, maybe leave some of the resentment at the door?
2 wheels = good.
Peace.
* LGF, I'm looking at you.
Oh the agony of my 23 year old campy groupset that's still as good as the day i bought it. A mechanical bike should be the future, when everyone is banging on about saving the planet how can you lot condone Lithium and all that goes with it then the production of electricity to charge it etc etc. A bicycle is supposed to be the greenest form of transport but people being people the planet is f#cked anyway. But no doubt many of you will greenwash your own brains. I have got into my trench with helmet on waiting for the incoming .
