Avenue Shifters by Avenue Cruisers Co.
The bike that shifts itself — on Kickstarter Nov 12
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Predictive automatic shifting for bikes and trikes. Avenue Shifters reads your cadence and wheel speed and shifts a standard chain and derailleur for you — no phone required. Link the app and it adds GPS grade (it sees the hill first) and live wind. It holds your gear while you coast, and the trikes drive both rear wheels through a true differential. Designed in Des Moines for returning riders, and riders whose hands don't work a gear lever like they used to. Launches Nov 12 on Kickstarter.
PH · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: specialized navigation and tracking apps · 203 launches, 35 in the last 7 days ▲ +84% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Sports
- Hardware
- Crowdfunding
- Tech
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Could you build this?
No The product is a physical electromechanical shifting system for bicycles, which requires hardware design, sensors, actuators, manufacturing, and firmware.
What it would actually take: Building it requires embedded firmware for cadence and wheel-speed sensing, a motorized derailleur actuator, and power management, plus a companion app with GPS and weather integration. It also needs mechanical and electrical engineering, prototyping, durability and safety testing, and manufacturing partners.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 51 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #28 of 52 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 184 days after the earliest competitor.
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