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07-06-12 | 01:35 PM

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cyccommute

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Originally Posted by DGlenday

I don't agree - and here's why:

There have been hundreds of "solutions to non-existent problems" over the past decades. Collectively, they amount to far better bike technology.

Ride a 1950s bike, then a 1970s bike to see what I mean. Then ride a 1990s bike (remember the days before carbon?) bd then a modern bike. All of those small 'unnecessary' changed have a cumulative effect.

There's been lots of missteps as well. See U-brakes, aluminum frames that use the same size tube as steel frames, Viscount aluminum forks, injection molded bicycles, rod brakes, Delta brakes, etc.

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Originally Posted by DGlenday

Another brake 'solution' is to put the rear braked at the bottom of the frame, on the chain-stays, to make them more aero. Interesting...

Go find an old u-brake equipped mountain bike. Ride it, preferably in the rain. Get back to us as to why placing a brake on the chainstay is a bad idea.

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