With the newest replace to their AXS smartphone app, the SRAM Wi-fi Blips can now be paired to your derailleurs with no need a separate main shifter on the bike.
Beforehand, the Wi-fi Blips might solely be added to a motorbike that had both a normal shifter lever (street) or paddle/pod (MTB), or their BlipBox (triathlon/TT). Now, the app will acknowledge the Wi-fi Blip buttons on their very own, and the one different element required is an AXS rear derailleur to function the “mother or father” element.
This opens up simpler customization of shifter layouts, significantly for triathlon and TT bikes that beforehand needed to conceal a BlipBox someplace in or on the bike. You possibly can pair as much as eight on a single bike, providing you with loads of shift location choices.
Mountain bikers may use it to streamline their cockpit, so long as they don’t want it to manage the Reverb AXS dropper. The Wi-fi Blips are nonetheless unable to ship a steady sign with an extended press, so that they received’t work for the dropper or with Multi-shift.
They retail for $99/pair and include mounting brackets for drop bars. The Wi-fi Blips will not be rechargeable and have to be recycled with different electronics once they cease working. SRAM estimates their battery life at as much as two years, with extra frequent riders possible getting a bit of over a yr out of them.
