Originally Posted by
smd4
Experience and expertise, basic tools of exposition, a blind reliance on raw numbers without taking into account human empirical observation.
Neither am I not surprised in the least.
But at the tire sizes and pressures you guys run at, perhaps it isn't surprising that all sense of road feel and vibration, without regard to fame material, has disappeared?
Perhaps we can merge this thread with "What's the dumbest thing another bicyclist has told you?". These nostalgic material evangelists usually have TDS (Titanium Derangement Syndrome) or SDS (Steel Derangement Syndrome), which causes a denial of fundamental physics and science and replaces this with emotion.
What's the dumbest thing another bicyclist has told you?