BikeRadar was recently part of a European press pack invited out for a look inside Shimano’s factories in Japan, Singapore and Malaysia.
We’ll be reporting on the insides of these tech temples in due course but, with the plant visits done, we had the chance to sit down and grill some of the component king’s road and mountain bike product managers.
Their technique under questioning indicates that, should they ever get the boot from their day jobs, they may have promising second careers as politicians. Here’s what we managed to chisel out of them.
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1. Wireless shifting? Hold your horses…
Of course, one of the big questions on people’s lips was whether Shimano will be following SRAM down the wireless groupset route following 2015’s mega-launch of SRAM’s Red eTap system.
2. Power meter possibilities
3. The Di2 trickle down to 105. It’s slow-moving
4. No immediate plans for 12spd
5. The future is rider-shaped
6. Women-specific components are ‘a dream’
7. Enduro groupset ‘under investigation’
8. ‘Four major launches’ for 2016
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