Originally Posted by
Abe_Froman
You're not the first person here to say this. But it is not something you can EXPERIENCE. I'm not seeing anyone here say what the difference is, measured in speed. And where they got that info. So lets make the question super, super simple:
If you're riding at 25mph on bike 'A', how fast would you go on an identical bike 'B', where the only difference is lateral stiffness is increased by 50%?
You're starting to remind me of Robert S. McNamara. The reason I say this is because I've been watching the new Ken Burns documentary on the history of the Vietnam war. In episode Two, it showed how McNamara demanded all of this empirical data, statistical reports from his top generals in South Vietnam. Unfortunately, what he failed to grasp were the
feelings and experiences of the Vietnamese people, at the time, that could have gone a long ways in helping the US in prosecuting the war effort.
Doesn't pay to minimize people's actual
experience--especially with regard to things that most likely you'll never in a million years be able to quantify.
PS: Get thee on a Wilier Zero.6 (or comparable machine) and you will FEEL the difference stiffness makes. ;-)