i’m italian and i use Campy Ekar with my gravel 🇮🇹 do it better 🚀

If you really want someone to come around to your way of thinking or provide you something, in this case a rim brake version. Insulting their intelligence will get you nowhere.

There are very few rim brake frames being offered at the moment, from the major manufacturers, who, love it or loathe it, drive what component makers do. The last two are from Pinarello and Colnago, who, whilst they are prominent companies, big enough to be considered as "major manufacturers", they are not on the scale of Trek or Specialized for example. Any manufacturer has to look at where the market is heading - this wheel, like almost every other new release in the wheel market from every company, is a disc brake wheel because that is where the market as a whole is headed. Trek, Specialized and others like them are leading that now and are setting the overall market expectations ... Add to that, the customers, it would appear, don't really want to pay the significant premium that is inherent in far smaller production runs of CF composite rims using different adhesive / matrix technology to withstand the heating that happens with rim brakes. Any brand can only look at the trends it sees in what it's wholesalers and distributors order - if rim brake sales were still very strong - and there is a rim brake WTO-pattern wheel available, in three depth offerings - then the incentive would be there to keep developing rim brake. Unfortunately, the sales of rim brake wheels, are OK - but not enough to sustain the ongoing development of new rim brake wheels by any of the major wheel brands. We all know that there are small framebuilders that still offer rim brake frames ... but we also all know well, that especially for those building in metal, rather than composite, most of the current movement in frame design (larger headtubes, integrated cockpits, disc brake, etc.) add weight to a frame in a way which can be coped with by building frames in composite but not, without a lot of tech & therefore cost, in metal. That very small, edge market is just not big enough to sustain factory manufacture at volume, plus those customers tend to be of a "custom" frame of mind and so may well opt for more custom, rather than off-the-peg wheels.

Let's go back to the horse and buggy, too!

There are 10 options for Rim brake and 21 for disc in the website.

Fiddler? Not the wrong-un kind i hope.

As an old seasoned veteran racer who rides Campy Wrl and EPS I’ll tell you straight up I wouldn’t recommend you get campy. It’s a pain in the ass and especially if you do your own wrenching. It just is and after a while the novelty of that wears off. Just saying.

I'd wish for a 10-36 or 10-39 13 speed cassette for Ekar Road.

I agree with you and am the same with my chorus bikes going back to the 80s. Sucks no 12speed Chorus EPS or WRL. It irks me. Eventually I really wanted to take the leap to elec shifting and had to make a hard decision, SR EPS 12 or SRAM. So I bit the bullet but it always stung. I did use my Chorus 12 cranks on that bike as my way of keeping it real. I hate campy. I love their products but I hate the constant pain in the ass or take it or leave it approach at every turn. Always feel like I got screwed no matter how good their stuff is. Give us modern Elec Chorus please!

Ditching the thumb shifters you couldn't reach from the drops or the joystick/aero position was the thing they got right.

​@@williwacker2774so ein Köse,nichts war schneller als die Daumenschalter,ich liebe sie und werde weiter mechanisch fahren. Ich und alle die ich kenne fahren 90% Oberlenker,und da sind die Daumenschalter das Nonplusultra.Sie sind von fast allen Oberlenkerpositionen bedienbar,weder sram noch shimano schaffen das!

@@erdbeerfeldheld007 Well I can reach AXS and Double Tap levers from normal hood position, joystick/aero position (using pinky) as well as from the drops without a lever getting in the way of my hands.

What can you do with the app? Update? Auto shift?

Change modes, update firmware and change buttons options. What is a shame you can’t do auto or semi auto shifting like Shimano does