Originally Posted by
Dave Mayer
I'm waiting for suspension forks on my road bike. They were the big news in 1992, and the bike industry were pushing them as the 'must-have' item. Why did they never take off?...
BITD I read about a guy trialing sus forks for CX bikes. They settled on travel, matching frame changes etc but were eventually stopped by the odds of getting them race legal. Might be the same for road bikes.
Originally Posted by
Dave Mayer
Second: I want a suspension seatpost on my carbon bike. Carbon is a firm ride, and a suspension post will take a lot of the butt sting off my long rides on pavement...
What's keeping you?
Thudbuster ST has been around for a long time and is easily adjustable for rider weight.
Originally Posted by
Dave Mayer
I worry about getting a bike with disks and getting sued as a result of a collision in a group ride. I hit the binders, and the rider behind with (inferior) rim brakes plows into the rear of my bike, and goes down. This might cause a mass pile-up involving multiple riders and tens of thousands of $ worth of gear.
Why?
Only b/c you MIGHT be able to brake harder/faster doesn't mean that you have to brake harder.
Do you worry about stronger sprinters riding into you too?
If you're in a car, do you worry about being held responsible for being rear-ended by other cars with poorer tires, heavier load or poorer brakes?
blaming a collision on the the guy ahead braking too hard is very rarely a succesful strategy.
If that was how hard you needed to brake, to stay on the road or avoid an obstacle, then what else could you have done?
Only way you could possibly be held accountable for being rear-ended is if you suddenly braked HARD for no good reason.
Originally Posted by
Dave Mayer
Plus the risks of getting sliced...
The first widely published injury was eventually ruled to have been caused by a chainring, not a rotor.
The guy who claimed to have gotten his shoe sliced open lead to several videos of people trying to slice things with rotors being posted. And despite having bikes in workstands, with one guy cranking and one guy pushing stuff against the turning rotor, the big cuts simply didn't happen.
But sure, rotors are fairly thin. There is an angle of approach where falling against a disc brake hub might add further injury.
OTOH, that's ALSO where q/r levers traditionally are. How common have injuries from q/r levers been in racing?