Originally Posted by
bulgie
- Consumers have been told so many times by magazine reviewers and manufacturers that stiffer is better, that they don't even know that it's controversial. Which causes a feedback loop, making the magazines even less likely to "teach the controversy". Actually educating their readers wouldn't help them sell more magazines, it would just piss off a large segment of their readers whose minds are made up. Ain't gonna happen, even if a magazine had a writer/editor who was educated enough to know there's a controversy, and such writers are rare in cycling journalism.
Unless they're Jan Heine and are absolutely convinced the consensus is wrong. I think he's been talking about planing and useful flex almost as long (longer?) than he has the benefits of wide tires with supple sidewalls. Of course, he's a publish who also has a bicycle product to sell, so having a controversy to teach allows him to differentiate his product from the masses.