Originally Posted by Gerry Hull

Priority is definitely speed, bro, and nothing else.
In May, a Boone, N.C. event called the Black and Blue.
204 miles, 17,000 feet climb, three states. Ego won't get me to the finish there.
So I can't afford ideas that don't work. I'm not really the knock-about-town type.

To imagine one has an original idea for a bicycle:
Now that is self-delusion.
But very few of them, original or not, have been fully thought through.
That would include a great deal of what you are sitting on now. But
don't go start having night sweats about your pulley wheels, campag-man.
That is a sram issue, far as I know.
You're in the clear, dude.

Persistence in developing an idea is a worthwhile thing, always.
It builds tolerance for failure, at the very least.
It is certainly better than talking.