So I assume professional biking is getting crashier.
One doable resolution?
This might introduce “larger components of security,’ which is a flowery manner of claiming…security:
Why use one phrase when you need to use 4? Why name Froot Loops “scrumptious” when you may say they’ve a “larger issue of deliciousness?” I assume it’s the identical motive bike reviewers can now not point out “value” and as a substitute need to consult with “value level.” Does anyone stroll right into a bodega and say, “Hey, my man, what’s the worth level on these Tic Tacs?” No they don’t. I do not know what the distinction between “value” and “value level” is, however I do suppose they need to take all of it the way in which and go along with “value level issue.”
However sure, I agree a motorcycle with a larger issue of weight would introduce a larger issue of security–with the additional benefit that it could most likely scale back the worth level issue significantly. I’d begin with a extra sturdy body materials, then increase the bars a bit and increase the wheelbase issue for added stability, and maybe even enhance the tire width issue for larger traction and higher shock absorption. All of this may little question have the additional benefit of an elevated issue of consolation, which might end in a correspondingly lowered issue of exhaustion on the finish of an extended stage, finally enhancing the issue of security even additional. In truth, the UCI is already working with bicycle designers as I kind this, and I simply occur to have spy images of a prototype:
And in the event that they actually need to introduce a larger issue of security enhancement, they need to do away with the press motorbikes and provides every rider an analog digital camera to maintain in his waxed handlebar bag, kind of like when folks hand out these disposable cameras at weddings. Then after the race they might develop the images and launch them to the media. Drawback solved.
Talking of non sequiturs, right here’s one–after I consider my formative bicycling years, one model that stands out maybe greater than every other is GT:
[From here.]
I by no means had a GT bike, however I did have varied GT components, like handlebars, and a layback seatpost, and tires I believed have been tremendous cool as a result of they got here in colours and had knobs that spelled out “GT.” I additionally keep in mind the winged emblem that stated “Huntington Seaside, CA” on it:
As a child in dreary New York thumbing by magazines, it appeared like life in California have to be an countless existence of ramps, empty swimming pools, BMX bikes and skateboards, and Black Flag exhibits.
Anyway, though GT has one thing of a Proustian impact on me, I haven’t paid consideration to them in fairly awhile–and presumably I’m not alone, as a result of it appears like this can be the top:
The story notes GT’s BMX, mountain bike, and highway legacy:
And naturally in addition they provided bikes for the US Nationwide Workforce:
[GT Superbike, via Classic Cycle]
And who might overlook this?
However aside from the BMX bikes of my youth, the opposite factor I most affiliate with them is their aluminum bikes of the late ’90s and early aughts:
[Via here]
It looks like they grew to become simply one other Pon model, however possibly as a substitute they need to have reinvented themselves as a throwback aluminum bike firm. In any case, aluminum is the brand new metal–simply ask Ultraromance, who’s made a cottage business of bringing again the kinds of ’90s-era aluminum bikes that have been as soon as GT’s inventory in commerce:
And what in regards to the GTB?
[From here.]
Regardless of being utterly unremarkable aside from the triple triangle, it’s develop into a cult basic. Have you ever seen what folks need for this stuff?
I imply get actual:
Mockingly, if GT had merely introduced again the GTB precisely because it was and bought it and nothing else, they’d most likely be thriving proper now. However as a substitute it looks like they’re promoting a bunch of bikes no person actually requested them for as a result of each different firm will promote you just about the very same factor:
There’s nonetheless time, GT. Deliver again the Zaskar, the GT ZR-whatever the Lotto highway bike was, and the GTB, unchanged. That’s all you want. You may’t miss.
