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To: fishtank
Pretty good marketing strategy for selling outrageously expensive toys to whale-loving millennials...

Unfortunately, these are bicycles, not airplanes, and definitely not fish. How much of the cyclist's stability depends on airflow across the tires in a crosswind?

I once heard it stated that 95% performance isn't all that expensive - with ability and effort you can omit the exotic and run with all but the top 5% in everyday life.

It's that top 5% that gets unbelievably hard and expensive. I think this is a "top 5%" idea - maybe a marginal improvement. Could you get the same benefit by shaving your legs, losing a few pounds or carb loading? Probably.

Oh well, your yuppie friends will be impressed anyway.

12 posted on 01/11/2018 9:24:15 AM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: ZOOKER

I darned-near crashed one day at 30+ MPH due to a crosswind-induced front-wheel flutter.

Remmeber that in 1989 Greg LeMond won the Tour de France by a margin of 8 seconds out of ~300000 seconds.


17 posted on 01/11/2018 10:15:44 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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