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...With 27.5 being the new 26, and 27.5+ being the new fatbike and 29 being, well, I'm not sure...not to mention the ever changing hub spacing requirements, is this the future or does it sum up consumer cynicism toward an ever more out of touch industry?
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Thinking about it for a minute though, I'd buy a 53T cassette...28" wheels would be the best of all worlds for me and I prefer a bike with a long front centre and wheelbase...
The future is a bike so long it occupies 2 time zones....
Made from wonder materials not on the periodic table.
Sold by invitation only to the chosen few.
The future is a bike so long it occupies 2 time zones....
To be fair, even a unicycle can do that if it's sitting on a time zone boundary 😉
Quite like all the change really. It at least means that some clever designers are focusing on our pride and joys. Once the dust settles, we'll have some cracking machines. Go ride a 1990's bike, then ponder if, like roadies, we should have kept the same basic format fixed in time forever but just changed it, year on, incrementally, tiny bit by tiny bit.
Old bikes are indeed crap. New ones, some of them, are amazing. Even the average ones would blow a 90's superbike out of the water. I love how the march of technology constantly improves everything. You can go away and forget about new mtb's for a year or two and when you come back there's been huge improvements.
The thing I don't like about the bike industry is that it feels like every single designer and manufacturer is just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. When they get a claggy tagnut they spray it neon yellow or pink and tell everyone, in the most superlative laden marketing speak, that this new product will change this and redefine that and it's all just bollocks.
I also don't like the apparent lack of cooperation. Everyone seems to be pulling in different directions trying to reinvent the wheel and we have no meaningful standards and no way of knowing which new technology will be useless and incompatible in a year or two.
They're also led by public opinion even if the public are wrong. The stupidest things can become unstoppable trends.
Well I'm not sure where all that came from. I'm off to wake myself up properly.
What about new wheel standard for road bikes? Surely the roadies also deserve the tarmac to come alive!
What about new wheel standard for road bikes?
they're already having their own dramas between discs or not, rim width, depth of rim, QR, bolt through rear spacing.
Ah I bloody hate the industry now it's a complete mess of stuff that doesn't match or work together.
TBH 90's bikes were ace. Sure the brakes were pants and they didn't have much suspension (or any), but they had a beautiful simplicity and were built for one purpose and that was going fast offroad.
and were built for one purpose and that was going fast offroad
And in comparison they don't do that... Read the bds legend interviews