Originally Posted by
runway1
Holy crappage, lose the crack, it's killing you! If that were true, why wouldn't all the bikes just copy the optimal geometry and use the cheapest materials?
Talk to a machanical or materials engineer and you'll get a far better understanding.
Because there is no optimal geometry. Different applications, crit, road, tt have geometries that are different.
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