AMuzi wrote:
On 5/25/2019 2:19 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 5/25/2019 2:16 PM, wrote:


Aerodynamics makes sense, so CF rims make sense, so disk
brakes makes sense. Simple. The only reason pro riders
are/were reluctant to use disk braces is weight.


Aerodynamics and CF rims and disk brakes make sense if
you're a pro racer who must chase after every diminishing
return.

What doesn't make sense is very ordinary riders mimicking
every choice the pro racers make.

I know a couple little kids who enjoy putting on little
capes, like their "super heroes." It's much the same thing.


It's not the same thing at all, else you would ride one
bicycle and it would be a $59.95 XMart MTB.

People like what they like and the reasons they give me in
the bike shop are different from the reasons they tell
fellow riders or their intimate associates. Who knows why? I
suspect the rider doesn't know why, but he likes it.

Bikes and cycling equipment once existed on a spectrum but
now on a branching growing fractal, each arm of which has a
spectrum. Tubulars? Clinchers? A little aero or a lot? CF
with aluminum brake track or all carbon? And sizes in
mind-numbing profusion. None of this is bad because - truly
- people like what they like.

Just as there is no one 'best' rim, there is no arbiter of
'best'. Just like life itself.


You don’t have to be a pro to be competitive. That argument is not only
specious but insulting.

--
duane