Behind the curtain of Shimano’s new wiredless Dura-Ace Di2 and Ultegra Di2

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Technology, Sports

4.4 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Shimano’s new Dura-Ace Di2 R9200 and Ultegra Di2 R8100 may seem like incremental improvements on the surface as compared to the outgoing versions. In reality, there’s an awful lot of engineering, thought, and work that went into every one of those decisions specifically so that the end result comes across as seamless as it does. You’ve already heard and read about all the tech features of the new groupsets, but in this special sponsored episode, we’ll take you inside the minds of some of the people at Shimano who helped shape the new groupsets more directly.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Second Tips Podcast, everybody. I'm Kayle Frets and we have a special episode for you today.
0:17.0	As you can probably guess because it's the end of the week, not when the, not when the podcast usually goes live. Now I'm here with James Wong. James, we had
0:27.4	something kind of important drop this week in the bicycle tech world.
0:32.9	Did we not?
0:34.0	Did we?
0:34.8	I must have missed it.
0:36.0	Miss it entirely.
0:36.8	We forgot to put it on the website.
0:38.5	Oh, wait, no, it was the Shimano stuff.
0:40.2	Correct.
0:41.2	Correct. Yes, new Shimano, new Durace, new Altegra.
0:45.0	Got a big in-depth story on the website.
0:47.6	Of course, go check out if you haven't already.
0:50.3	But this podcast, we're going to go even deeper.
0:53.7	We're going to go way deeper.
0:56.2	A couple weeks ago, we sat down with Dave Lawrence and Nick Legan from Shimano
1:01.6	and did, well, one of our now notorious deep dives.
1:06.6	Notorious seems like a good explanation, good descriptor for that.
1:09.1	I think so.
1:10.1	Now of course, as always, these are sponsored episodes. this is brought to you by Shimano however there are some ground rules the ground rules being we ask whatever we want and they well they don't have to answer us, I guess.
1:24.0	That's true.
1:25.0	We get to ask because they don't necessarily have to answer.
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