Originally Posted by Danhalen
You're right. Everyone should ride a bike setup exactly like yours. Everyone's bike should look exactly the same and we should all take riding our bikes very seriously, disregarding everyone's idea of fun as well. Hell I better weigh my stem too and measure its "floppiness".
No, I just think that blindly mimicking the setup of every other bike locked up in a tree outside of whatever dreadful bar one frequents is boring and in this case particularly stupid.
There are plenty of reasons not to put high performance parts on your bike but I can think of none beyond conformist aesthetics to misuse this specific bit of over priced componentry. Can you? LOL you spent a lot of money to look just like everyone else and your bike rides worse for it. Sounds pretty pathetic to me, but I guess if that's your idea of fun go ahead.