Any airplane must be light enough to fly, and strong enough to survive turbulence. It's a fine balancing act, and it's the reason why Rene Herse's bikes are so amazing: He learned his craft building prototype aircraft, including the first plane to fly across the Atlantic the hard way – against the westerly winds. His vision has greatly influenced how I see bikes: Light enough to fly, but strong enough to survive turbulence. So we don't make "event" tires, but we also don't make "bullet-proof" tires you can ride even without air in them.
Jan Heine Editor Bicycle Quarterly www.bikequarterly.com Follow our blog at http://janheine.wordpress.com/ On Friday, March 14, 2014 7:49:30 AM UTC-7, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On 03/14/2014 10:36 AM, Aaron Young wrote: > Outweighs those performance gains for a specific type of riding. It's > another example of 'horses for courses.' When this thread began, I was > tempted to post a couple of photos illustrating & comparing the Grant vs > Jan approaches: > > *Grant* > > > A-10 > > > vs > > *Jan* > > > U-2 > > (Note, that both examples represent perhaps the best aircraft of each type > ever developed...) > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
