With so much on display at the Interbike 2015 floor, the best way to savour it all is in small bites – here’s some of the coolest gearfrom Lynskey Performance bicycles, OTTO Tuning Systems, DeFeet socks, and Smith Optics. OTTO TUNING SYSTEMOne of the coolest ‘small bits’ I saw was from Portland-based Otto Design Works – who’ve recentlylaunched an iphone app that makes tuning your rear derailleur as easy as following the Siri-sounding female voice’s directions. I pride myself on still knowing how to tune my derailleurs the old fashioned way – by hand and with a certain feel honed over some 30 years of doing it myself. But even if I think I know what I’m doing, there’s still a fair amount of guess work involved – ie: “do these shifts feel right – or should I twist that barrel adjuster a couple more turns…?”The Otto Tuning System takes this guesswork out of the equation, but using the front mounted camera on the iphone to precisely measure the position of several target dots on two gauges that simply snap into place on the rear derailleur and cogset. The app knows what the desired placement of these targets is for ideal shifting, and tells you exactly how to adjust your rear mech to acheive this perfect alignment.The app then instructs you through a series of easy to follow steps that set the tension in the rear derailleur cable, set hi- and lo- limits, and how many turns and in which direction...
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