So I suppose professional biking is getting crashier.
One potential answer?
This may introduce “higher components of security,’ which is a elaborate method 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 “greater issue of deliciousness?” I suppose it’s the identical purpose bike reviewers can now not point out “value” and as an alternative 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 assume they need to take all of it the best way and go together with “value level issue.”
However sure, I agree a motorcycle with a higher issue of weight would introduce a higher issue of security–with the additional advantage that it could in all probability cut back the worth level issue significantly. I’d begin with a extra strong body materials, then elevate the bars a bit and develop the wheelbase issue for added stability, and maybe even enhance the tire width issue for higher traction and higher shock absorption. All of this may little doubt have the additional advantage of an elevated issue of consolation, which might end in a correspondingly lowered issue of exhaustion on the finish of an extended stage, in the end enhancing the issue of security even additional. Actually, the UCI is already working with bicycle designers as I sort this, and I simply occur to have spy pictures of a prototype:
And in the event that they actually need to introduce a higher issue of security enhancement, they need to eliminate the press motorbikes and provides every rider an analog digital camera to maintain in his waxed handlebar bag, type of like when individuals hand out these disposable cameras at weddings. Then after the race they might develop the pictures 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 another 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 brand that stated “Huntington Seashore, CA” on it:
As a child in dreary New York thumbing by way of magazines, it appeared like life in California should be an countless existence of ramps, empty swimming pools, BMX bikes and skateboards, and Black Flag reveals.
Anyway, regardless that 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 tip:
The story notes GT’s BMX, mountain bike, and highway legacy:
And naturally additionally they equipped bikes for the US Nationwide Group:
[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 an alternative 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 fully unremarkable aside from the triple triangle, it’s change into a cult traditional. Have you ever seen what individuals need for these items?
I imply get actual:
Mockingly, if GT had merely introduced again the GTB precisely because it was and offered it and nothing else, they’d in all probability be thriving proper now. However as an alternative 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. Convey again the Zaskar, the GT ZR-whatever the Lotto highway bike was, and the GTB, unchanged. That’s all you want. You’ll be able to’t miss.
