>From the comments:* But looking forward to your next article “15 Best Rivendells for Taking Your AltBike Adventures to the Next Level”*
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 10:10 AM Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I do like to read Weiss; under his profane and flippant exterior he has a > lot of common sense. > > But I'm curious: making a distinction between carbon fiber and stupid > light carbon fiber, can cf be made tough as well as strong? That is, can it > be made to withstand the thousand natural shocks that bikes are heir to? > (Eloquence not mine, borrowed.) > > If so, does it still have real-world advantages over top quality modern > steels? That is, making it tougher will make it heavier, but might it still > be lighter in a practical way than steel of similar strength and toughness, > and might it also still be tunable in a way that steel cannot be? > > No fight in this dog, as someone recently said, since I have no interest > in buying a cf frame (unless someone starts making customs for under $2K), > but academically, I wonder if cf doesn't offer *real world* advantages > even to the commuter and average parenting schlub? > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 9:15 AM iamkeith <keithhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Eben Weiss shines a light on the folly of carbon, in the way only he can. >> >> >> https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/opinion/theres-no-good-reason-to-buy-a-carbon-bike/?fbclid=IwAR0muu-zFYlIDfTmjI3DiAeGq8a9WL0O3NfeyNV6biqV4dGqV-CGxsRbrDU >> >> While I'm at it, I've been meaning to share this. A modern roadie >> discovers steel: >> >> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_lh6qCZESZU >> >> I enjoy this guy's, Lois Scott's, youtube videos, because he articulates >> the modern rooadie mindset so well. I left the lycra and aero, group-ride >> mindset behind me so many decades ago that I often feel like those people >> and I speak an entirely different language. Over the last year or so, he >> discovered steel and became a convert. There are a number of videos on his >> youtube "channel" documenting his journey. This is just one I could find >> from near his epiphany. I think he's taken it further since. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/7f0a9698-20b6-4edd-ad40-60d5796deeefn%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/7f0a9698-20b6-4edd-ad40-60d5796deeefn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing > services > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* > > *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* > > *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* > -- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgsybVKvc2nuAyJ4fuvoUnUAQJXY6SGaEYWqJ%3D6EKEBBpg%40mail.gmail.com.
