So I assume professional biking is getting crashier.
One potential resolution?
This might introduce “higher elements of security,’ which is a elaborate approach of claiming…security:
Why use one phrase when you should utilize 4? Why name Froot Loops “scrumptious” when you’ll be able to say they’ve a “larger issue of deliciousness?” I assume it’s the identical motive bike reviewers can not point out “worth” and as a substitute should consult with “worth level.” Does anyone stroll right into a bodega and say, “Hey, my man, what’s the value level on these Tic Tacs?” No they don’t. I do not know what the distinction between “worth” and “worth level” is, however I do assume they need to take all of it the best way and go together with “worth level issue.”
However sure, I agree a motorcycle with a higher issue of weight would introduce a higher issue of security–with the additional benefit that it will in all probability scale back the value 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 even perhaps enhance the tire width issue for higher traction and higher shock absorption. All of this is able to little doubt have the additional benefit of an elevated issue of consolation, which might lead to a correspondingly decreased 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 photographs of a prototype:
And in the event that they actually wish 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 folks hand out these disposable cameras at weddings. Then after the race they may develop the photographs 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 emblem that stated “Huntington Seaside, CA” on it:
As a child in dreary New York thumbing by way of magazines, it appeared like life in California should be an infinite 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 feels 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 may neglect this?
However other than 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 turned simply one other Pon model, however possibly as a substitute they need to have reinvented themselves as a throwback aluminum bike firm. In spite of everything, aluminum is the brand new metal–simply ask Ultraromance, who’s made a cottage business of bringing again the types 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 other than the triple triangle, it’s turn into a cult basic. Have you ever seen what folks need for this stuff?
I imply get actual:
Satirically, 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 a substitute it looks like they’re promoting a bunch of bikes no one 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. Carry again the Zaskar, the GT ZR-whatever the Lotto highway bike was, and the GTB, unchanged. That’s all you want. You possibly can’t miss.