Originally Posted by
Kontact
You'll need to quote me the studies and white papers that lead you to your various conclusions. Until then, you are the inexperienced doubter and I am the one correctly practicing and observing a trade craft for four decades that started with the studies at Wheelsmith.
If you say so. But you haven't actually provided any mechanical analysis about your claims. Just claims to authority.
And not like some monkey following directions, either. I had the top SAT score in my high school, went to the number ten university in the US, had a successful career as military and commercial pilot, investigated aircraft crashes and got into Mensa. I have thought an awful lot about why some things break and why even damaged elbows don't, and the fact that I can fix a wheel that is breaking spokes by simply manipulating the bends and tensions tells me that the people like you that "know better", don't.
So you've been a bike mechanic for four decades, been a military and commercial pilot and been a crash investigator? You've certainly gotten around. How does one combine the rigors of military aviation and a career at the bleeding edge of bicycle mechanics?
You have never done any of those things with wheels, and simply aren't qualified to have an opinion. It is tiresome, and screws people who need help out of useful advice because the armchair brigade takes the useful advice and hides it in the noise.
I mean, you don't actually know what I've done and what I haven't. I could be an astronaut who fixes bikes in jupiter. You need strong wheels in that sort of gravity...