Originally Posted by
Batman_3000
The parallel with vintage steel bikes ? Harmonics play a great part in the rider's perception of what a bike "feels" like, and with steel there is a heck of a lot of vibrations and harmonics of all lengths going on, and those vibes affect as said what you feel, but also how the bike performs for you. Making a bike too rigid as in carbon, not counting the damping effect of the medium (araldite basically), makes for a poor ride. So maybe the hippies were right about "vibes" .
I agree completely on the bike harmonics. My old steel bike sounds different than my OCR3. I don't know if it is the way steel vibrates compared to aluminum, or if it is the different wheels, but it just has a different harmonic. It also helps that the steel bike is quiet as a cathedral while the modern bike seems to always have at least one thing that is rattling! I'll chase them all down eventually.
