>....unlike science where one measurement is
>worth a thousand expert opinions in sport, loss of psychological confidence
>in your bike is worth a thousand lost opportunities. You have to feel good
>to do well, you have to think that your bike is stiff and reactive.
Yeah, I'll say! I once had a bike from a very well-known manufacturer
which
went into a horrendous high-speed wobble coming down Jay Peak in Vermont.
I
noticed it starting during a couple of other descents at other times and
then
slowed right down. That's one bike I wasn't too sad to have lost when it
was
stolen one night.
As regards the life of steel frames, surely a bike which is regularly
raced
has a higher level of stress for any given number of kilometers as
compared to
one used for general touring, so to say a particular material lasts 'x'
years
is highly debatable. And if one were keen enough to inject oil inside
the
frame tubes when the bike was new (and annually thereafter) the bike
would
last an incredibly long time.
.... Paul L.
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