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Update: New version released, so your pictures have changed (and are, if anything, even cooler now)
Here’s a review of an interesting continuous variable transmission for bikes. While the whole idea is cool, I was particularly impressed by the handlebar indicator. In easy ‘gears’ the display shows a hill, while in harder gears the line flattens out. A quick look at the picture shows that it’s a very simple mechanism used, but provides much better feedback than a series of numbers (one’s low, but is low easy or hard?)