smd4

I'd love to see where I've written any of this. I'll wait...

You're the one claiming I started talking about speed--which is provably false.

Cool. Enjoy your mushy ride.

I'm not really concerned at all about aerodynamic drag. Therefore, almost by definition, I'm even less concerned about the "second biggest drag."

Cool. Enjoy those 40 mm couch cushions!

Maybe fatiguing for you. Feels great for me! When I get injured, I'll let you know.

Sorry you feel that way. If I'm so bothersome to you, I suggest you put me on ignore.

That's for sure:

elcruxio

You really expect me to go trawling through all the threads you've ruined? I guess I'll just bring this up in the next one.

Well, i mean, you claiming your tires aren't slow is technically talking about speed, so...

You mean grippy, efficient and comfortable ride?

Figures.

I'll take a couch cushion over a solid rubber tire any day of the week. You say the 140psi tires don't feel like solid rubber, but at those pressures it's truly really hard to tell (no pun intended)

Fatigue or injuries aren't really an issue with low monthly riding distances and low speeds. You sure you wouldn't be better off with a hybrid?

I mean, you ride throroughbred racing bike but you don't ride it anywhere near it was meant to be ridden. And I don't even mean racing or group rides. Just plain spirited road riding. It's like buying a Ford GT40 and only cruising it around the block. I mean, you definitely can do that. I just don't see the point.

Especially when said Ford driver comes to forum topics rambling about how all the modern supercars are crap and the drivers are using them wrong. Supercars were meant to feel like rock sleds with their tires pumped up to max psi.

I don't as a rule put people on ignore. But nice try.

Here I feel you may have had a slight hiccup with reading comprehension. Or you're being purposefully obtuse, cherry picking and straight out taking things out of context for malicious purposes. But let's go with the first one, because I like to believe in the good in people.

smd4

I'll take that as an, "I can't."

Again, this fixation with speed. It's not healthy.

Nope. I mean "mushy."

Again, if you can't tell the difference between pneumatic tires at a high pressure, or solid tires, you have zero experience with either.

You have no idea how much I ride, or at what speed.

Jealous?

I drive a Toyota.

I'll give myself an A for effort.

You suggested I run my tires at 40 psi. Let me repeat that: 40 psi, in tires where the minimum recommended pressure is 100 psi. No hiccup or deficit in reading comprehension. Just astonishment that someone could even suggest such a thing. It's like you want me to destroy my rims! (do you?)

elcruxio

You can read like that if you want. But it'll be waiting for you in the next thread.

I agree. Which is why you should stop talking about it.

I sense a lack of experience from your part. But I just ride the pressures the pro's ride. If that's mushy, well I'd rather be mushy and have a bicycle that's high performance than... Well whatever you have.

Of I have experience of both. And tires at 140psi are really close to solid rubber tires.

No, but I can guess. And I guess: not much and slowly. Well, you've stated about that slowly part but I'm guessing you don't ride much at all.

Of a noodly frame, sub par components, incredibly bad brakes and tires which have no traction, are inefficient and uncomfortable.
No, I can't really say I am. I've never understood the appeal of vintage road bikes. To me, bikes started looking nice when they started making oversized tubing.
But it actually clicked for me now. Perhaps you need the noodly frame and fork to tolerate the overinflated tires. And if you had better brakes, you'd probably wipe out because of loss of traction. Shifting crispness doesn't much matter when you just noodle around the MUP's. That pun was intended.

Eyy, me too! Great cars. Horrible suspension though.

You're not even a category B troll.

Did I though? Maybe go read that post again with some thought. And if you don't get it, just blame it on my bad english. But the fact was that I never actually suggested you use 40psi. Only someone with zero reading comprehension or someone who's malicious could think that.
What was pretty clearly written was that you should ride near the break point, which isn't 40psi for 23mm tires.

Did you seriously not get that? Man, I need to start writing my messages to you like you were a preschooler.

smd4

HA! Too much silliness to respond to. You win. You're right, and I'm wrong. Satisfied? So I'll let you get in the last word.

BillyD

What makes you two guys think you can conduct an extended, disruptive, personal feud on these forums? That's a mistake.