The article referenced by Jan features a French-blue Rivendell Road with resist nomads: http://trstriathlon.com/talking-tires-with-joshua-poertner/
(I think this is David's bike, and I hope he's compensated given the reference to photopin license. His Flickr feed shows up as no commercial use.) I like this section (towards bottom of the article): > If wider is better, is a lot wider a lot better? And if a wider tire is > what the world needs, then do we need a wider wheel to hold it? More > accurately do we need wider wheels, wider forks, and wider chain and seat > stays to hold them? Who is going to manufacture all this stuff, and how > will the bike designer, the wheel builder, and the tire maker negotiate the > new standards? Indeed, who is going to manufacture all this stuff??? shoji On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 12:51:58 PM UTC-4, Jan Heine wrote: > > In science, it's important that results are replicable - this means that > anybody doing the same experiment must get the same results. I was excited > to learn that recently, Joshua Poertner (formerly of Zipp, now of Silca) > has replicated our results on tire pressure: Higher tire pressures don't > make you faster on smooth pavement, and definitely are slower on rough > surfaces. He apparently used the same rumble strip method as we did when we > first quantified suspension losses. > > More about this is here: > > https://janheine.wordpress.com/2016/06/14/suspension-losses-confirmed/ > > It's exciting that what used to be highly controversial now is entering > the mainstream. And I want to thank the listmembers who were open to these > ideas long before anybody else. > > Jan Heine > Editor > Bicycle Quarterly > www.bikequarterly.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
