“Stop. Take a step back. Breathe. Now think: there is an industry that consistently puts out products that exhibit death wobbles. Really, think about this: death wobbles. Let me repeat it again: DEATH wobbles. And you are defending this industry.”
you’re asking somebody else to step back and breathe?
i’ve been a triathlete for 25+ years, and a bike racer going back to the 70s. i’ve never experienced, or spectated, a race in these three decades where a cyclist had to pull up because of a speed wobble.
now, there are a variety of inputs that will cause speed wobble. rock/ice/mountain climbers, as well as cyclists, sometimes experience “sewing maching leg.” it’s an involuntary tremor that is a primary input causing speed wobble. likewise the shakes caused by frigid temps. a front wheel out of true may cause speed wobble, typically upon braking. lots of weight cantilevered in front of the steering axis, again typically upon breaking (specific to steep tri bikes with long stems and a long steering lever). in such case as a bike is afflicted with any of these problems, it is still quite likely to resist speed wobble. but these inputs hasten whatever slim chance a bike may have of exhibiting it.
most all bikes today on the road are properly built and will not typically exhibit this. of course – and i think i’ve mentioned this for the third time now – my car will exhibit that same front end shimmy on occasion. there are remedies for it. that doesn’t mean the car is badly engineered. the fact that not only i, but you, have never seen speed wobble happen in a bike race in all the years you’ve seen them televised ought to tell you something about the rarity of this occurrence.