Originally Posted by Dave Moulton
So when I opened my own business in 1982 in order to compete my bikes had to not only ride and feel better than anything else, they had to look better also. All this extra work pushed the price sky high and people then said the bikes were not only too pretty to race they were too expensive. The bikes became to a certain extent art objects to look at rather than ride, which was always a thorn of contention for me because the beauty of a bike is in how it rides.
My feelings exactly. A bike's beauty is in it's ride. That is also why I call good mountain bikes beautiful as well...it's form meets function. Given in some cases form can't come close to function, but sometimes it's better to be that way
