Originally Posted by
pressed001
New bike geometries are a result of modern computing and technological advancements........
Judging a bike solely based on whether it has a sloped top tube is archaic. There are reasons why new race bikes have their geometry.....
Archaic:
adjective Very old or old-fashioned.
I remain amazed at how little the safety bicycle has changed over more than a century since it's introduction. And... at how every tiny little change, modification, or improvement has been fought from some direction... for some reason.
I myself can find my opinion of a bicycle altered... simply based on the paint color/scheme.
Originally Posted by
68venable
They want you to buy the new bike racks that mount from the wheels and not the top tube. That is the only reason they changed the bike designs.
The whole sloping top tube conspiracy may very well be orchestrated by the bicycle rack cartel.
But they should be thanked for that (even if their intentions are evil). I like that kind of rack system.
I love my vintage bikes.... AND the modern bikes that I ride near daily. But when I picture a bicycle in my mind.... It looks like the steel bikes built when I was a kid in the 60's. Yet I also have been lusting after a road bike with disc brakes. I live very happily with both contrasting paradigms living together in my head.