Originally Posted by
chaadster
Man, am I glad I entered the online world at the tail end of Brandt's activity period, because I think that guy was just not credible on so much, and I know we'd have butted heads a lot.
I presented my questions about his claims to him in person, at the Palo Alto Bike Shop in the fall of 1986. I had read his book and asked/challenged him about "standing on a spoke" claim and the "DB is gooder" claim. He was kinda speechless, I guess he wasn't used to defending his claims. To this day, he's never given any engineering explanation beyond what's in the book. I've since met a fellow rider/engineer and he had the same result using finite analysis, Josbt got all pissed at him too. Never defended his claims, just attacked him (just as he did to me in '86).