This is why bicycle racing is completely irrelevant to people who actually use their bike for transportation. For a long time, I have been saying that race bicycle design is so divorced from real world useful bicycling as to be completely irrelevant. Why on earth would anyone buy a race bike and use it for their commute or for..well, anything except a professional race while being followed by a motorized maintenance crew carrying several backup race bikes? A carbon fiber race bike is fragile, dangerous, and completely unsuitable for any real world purpose. For quite some time, the scientific consensus has been that wider tires are safer, more reliable, and more comfortable. Now that science is equally clear that wide tires are FASTER on real world roads, the reaction has been to...ban tires wider than 31mm?
https://www.renehersecycles.com/uci-limits-road-bike-tires-to-31-mm/ Seriously, the bicycling community needs to wake up and stop idolizing racers, race bikes, and the companies that promote them. These people are working to promote bikes that are terrible for any useful transportation purpose. Doug -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/1b2901f6-70b4-4d16-b3e8-163d101ec4e8n%40googlegroups.com.
