Originally Posted by
alhanson
I understand the point but isn't this really subjective? Sort of like selecting an old CJ7 or D90. Mozart over MC Hammer...
Yes, there is some subjectivity in choosing a bicycle but it isn't the same thing as choosing music. Note that there's
nothing wrong with selecting a bicycle for subjective reasons! It's even interesting to hear about those reasons. But "to each his own" is the answer to everything and the answer to nothing. It doesn't
say anything!
Originally Posted by
alhanson
I don't know that I have ever seen a practical or rational way to define one bike frame style over another. One brake system over another, One rack style over another. I have seen bandwagon and Brand lovers but nothing conclusive as to what makes one "product" better than another.
The fact that there aren't "conclusive" ways of making the determination of "rational/practical" benefits doesn't mean that those types of benefits don't exist or that discussing them doesn't have a value.
Originally Posted by
alhanson
we covet the simple, the durable, the fixable
Those
are rational/practical things, which are knowable to some extent (if not "conclusively").
Originally Posted by
alhanson
and if we can throw in some style to boot... heck give me a splash of that too but it ain't all that important overall.
Nothing wrong with some style!
Originally Posted by
alhanson
If anyone wants to play with the idea of what makes the perfect bike or defines one bike better over all to all others... I am game.
But there won't be a better bike "over all others". People have different needs and require different bicycles.
Originally Posted by
alhanson
Just know that any such effort though entertaining doesn't get us an inch further down the lane.
Really? You mean discussions about practical reasons one bicycle might be better than another doesn't "get us further"? If that was true, we'd be riding the same bicycles that people did over 100 years ago!