Thread: So, what will be the next useful major improvement in road bikes?
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Old 09-02-11 | 12:15 PM
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From: Erie Penna.
Originally Posted by Nerull
And if you want to carry a 15 pound flywheel up a hill for a very slight boost up the next hill, be my guest. I don't think you'll come out on top. You don't get extra energy for nothing - any boost you get out of this must have been added to it earlier by work you did, and the handicap of lugging this thing around everywhere is on top of that.
Don’t get me wrong I'm not advocating such a device in fact I pointed out that exact same thing in a previous post. Nonetheless many of the modern innovations of today's road bikes started out with some heavy roots. There is a big difference in some guy building a prototype of an idea in his shop and what the refinement could end up being 20 years down the road. Even the first Ironman was a little on the heavy side.
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