Hybridlete wrote:
BryanD wrote:
Just like the outrage on electronic shifting, people will eventually accept disc brakes just as they accepted electronic shifting.
And you will also get electric motors with batteries built into the Kamm Tail downtubes as standard.
Bikes are just getting needlessly complex. What happened to the days you could just ride your bike without having to fixed the warped disc on it each ride and wait for it to charge?
I rode those so called days.
Wheels were weak, we needed 36 spokes to make sure we got home.
Rim joins used to go thud thud thud through the brakes until you filed them down and just lived with the pulsing.
We guessed where the downtube levers should be to get a gear and bent out front derailleurs in all sorts of ways to get them to shift.
We had to line up the rear wheel in horizontal dropouts to get it in straight, nearly all handlebars creaked and brands like Cinelli used a very slightly different diameter to others so you had to get the right stem for the bars.
Nearly every bike come with 170mm cranks regardless of size and the 500 gram seats were bloody uncomfortable.
We got way more flats on simpler tyres and we used non stainless spokes that looked like crap after a while because stainless ones used to break.
Brakes never seemed to keep their centre and we used to take the cage out of headsets to fit more bearings in there because the tiny headsets never lasted more than a few months.
We did the same to bottom brackets but at least our efforts of putting bearings in one by one held in by grease made them last a reasonable time after that.
Steels frames were never longer than 58cm, they just went higher as they got so flexy they would throw you off at high speed and everybody new what a speed wobble was.
Our feet hurt in the straps and toeclips and clincher tyres all wobbled when they spun.
Gearing was 52 x 42 and 13-19 like it or lump it.
You haven't got an f'ing clue you dumb troll.