With all respect to Mr. Weiss, the logical material for racy/roady types is aluminum, not steel. Nearly as light as carbon, significantly more robust, cheaper, and has the modern look and feel.
It's a long way from a carbon Trek to a steel bike -- and whose steel bike do you buy? It'd have to be be something completely different. Whereas some road and gravel models from major manufacturers are available in either carbon or aluminum. That's what I read, anyway, in an article about the cost/benefit equation for aluminum vs. carbon. It made sense to me. But what do I know... I'm riding 80s aluminum AND 80s steel and enjoy both. cheers -m On Monday, January 29, 2024 at 4:00:53 PM UTC-5 DavidP wrote: > I may have had a similar reaction when the article first came up in my > feed but then I saw the byline. > This is Eben Weiss, BikeSnobNYC. He's a regular contributor to Outside but > he is in no way a mainstream cyclist (more Riv/Bob-ish) and his articles > stand out as a bit different to most of what shows up there. > > -Dave > > On Monday, January 29, 2024 at 3:13:21 PM UTC-5 pi...@gmail.com wrote: > >> >> https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/opinion/theres-no-good-reason-to-buy-a-carbon-bike/?fbclid=IwAR2uIwBwz29AqiFhiVs5TTjdXw2HDNApUOMVh51foKzayEp1u_vB5UMltqU >> >> Never thought I'd see this. >> > -- 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/64bb0107-4b6c-40d5-bbf8-9c0f07ca9a0bn%40googlegroups.com.
