Originally Posted by
DScott
The conversation should have STARTED with this notion: is it possible to quantify the differences in materials characteristics such that we could predict differences in perceived ride quality? The answer is "no", btw.
Well, how kind of you to bestow your greatness upon us. It's a shame you didn't show up 5 pages ago and put this little question to rest earlier.
Originally Posted by
DScott
FWIW, I doubt there are trained professional "bicycle butts" who evaluate differences in frame materials. I think bike designers and builders consider materials available to them (and what would sell), and
make what they like, check it out with their friends, run it by a pro bike rider of three, then hand it over to the marketing dept., in some order or another. Or to put it another way, "this ain't rocket surgery!"
So, using a layman's approach to accomplish the same goal in a completely unscientific manner should somehow be preferred? You realize, of course, that there's more scientific approaches to coffee bean roasting than what you propose.