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1. stelliosk · 1790954379 · focus · HN ↗

   Shimano make great fishing tackle especially reels, from applying their expert gear-engineering skills from bicycle manufacturing, plus is an outdoor sport.

   1. ruddct · 1790955082 · focus · HN ↗

      I love that they share product names between cycling and fishing (e.g. the mid-priced range of reels and cycling groupsets are 'Ultegra')
   2. wil421 · 1790956047 · focus · HN ↗

      Shimano reels are the best I dumped Penn and switched everything over. I’d like to add a Talica to the collection.

      I love their group sets and a 1x11 blew my mind during covid. I was always used to 3x setups and I don’t think 1x’s were around when I was a kid.

      1. dan-bailey · 1790956333 · focus · HN ↗

         1x11 is a fairly recent thing. Came out in the last ~8 years, really. I was hesitant about going 1x, but did on my gravel bike (1x12) and it's a nice way to cut complexity, weight, and improve maintainability. That's not to say the era of the front derailleur is over -- I think they've still got their place on road bikes.

         1. pandaman · 1790970785 · focus · HN ↗

            Came out in 2012 with SRAM MB group (XX1). The main invention was the narrow-wide chainring, before that there was no any advantage in 1x as you still needed a chain retainer in the front in lieu of the front derailleur. So it's fairly recent but not 8 y.o. 1x12 is already 10 y.o.
   3. jackmott42 · 1790956669 · focus · HN ↗

      They started with reels! Bikes came after.

      1. whaleofatw2022 · 1790963949 · focus · HN ↗

         IIRC, they specifically started with freewheels because they arent that different from a reel in how they work.

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