See also: EGS documents

Country: France

I remember EGS as being two distressingly enthusiastic Frenchmen who showed a fantastical twist grip gear changer at trade shows in the late 1990’s. Their twist grip was called Synchro Shift, and it was amazing because a single right hand shifter operated two cables and controlled both the front and the rear derailleur. It shifted, in a complex pattern, through 14 of the 27 gears and gave a reasonably coherent set of ratios without duplications. EGS had plastic and CNC machined versions of this wonder, and the product seemed to work on the test rigs on their stands at these shows. Everybody, including me, rightly or wrongly assumed that the Synchro Shift looked great but would break immediately when it encountered the ‘real world’.

After a few years (1998?) they also showed an exceedingly weird CNC machined derailleur called Up Cage. I remember this oddity as being popular with French downhill racers and nobody else.

Then EGS disappeared never to be heard of again. More...