By the way:
You realize, of course, that forty years from now (assuming that bicycles stay in production and as popular as they are now):
1. The carbon fiber frames will be old hat, common, cheap, and have been replaced by a technology that none of us can guess at.
2. Detractors on this (or whatever succeeds it) forum will be shrilly screaming that said frames are complete pieces of ****, are unstable, have a road life of three weeks before self destructing (should keep the TdF teams and the memory of Colin Chapman happy) . . . . . .. and besides, those idiot things don't look like real bicycles.
3. And by the year 2080, they'll be collectible antiques, must to the disgust of the vintage bike crowd.
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Syke
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken, (1926)