Originally Posted by RoadTire

You are the one with the harsh responses to start with. Maybe there is a good reason Army Majors don't have their own large community of cycling folk. It takes a broad spectrum of cyclists to do what we do here.

How did you get to be a Major without knowing how to find all the data you need, either within your military resources or on the wide open internet? Not to mention making a few well placed calls to manufacturer reps, sales departments, emails to all the same, and your local bike shop. (That's a rhetorical question, by the way.)

Actually you should throw some of your weight around and actually talk to the professional cycling teams. Nobody knows like they do the benefits or not of any particular cycle or component.