Originally Posted by
bulgie
Calm down, there's no one on earth more qualified to pamper a top-flight bike than Dale Brown.
Rules like the ones you state are good to hammer into newbs, but when you get the master level as Dale did decades ago, rules don't apply to you anymore.
Not so much that the rules don't apply, but with age, experience and wisdom comes the knowledge of when the rules can be bent a bit.
