Originally Posted by
eja_ bottecchia
Threads like this one make me appreciate the old fashioned design features of my bikes. Sometimes innovation is not worth the added inconvenience.
My personal view is don't have to have a baby with the bathwater buying philosophy when it comes to bikes. Don't have to ride an old fashioned bike to get modern performance that is reliable. Problem is, you have really be into this stuff to see the forest through the trees. Uber light and stiff and compliant road bikes exist that are utterly reliable taking advantage of modern tech. Bottom line is many of the elite bikes have some serious tradeoffs...because the feathered edge of nth degree high performance has tradeoffs...but not so much only slightly down the pecking order for almost the same performance.