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not sure how this is anti consumer? Shimano hasn't pushed these for years (decades?) and they're allowed to stop manufacturing parts eventually.
by skeeter2020 4y ago
not sure how this is anti consumer? Shimano hasn't pushed these for years (decades?) and they're allowed to stop manufacturing parts eventually.
- asdff 4y agoBy making every single brifter they release have a different hood. Look it up, there are like dozens they've made, the part numbers are dizzying. Compare this to older style road bikes before the brifter era, where the rubber hood was pretty much standardized across most bikes, and because of that to this day you can still buy new hoods for that older style of bike. But not mine made just a decade after that era, because mine is from the "new hood design every few years" era of forced obsolescence. It's a hood. How different does it even need to be year to year?