I cannot help but laugh at the sentence: *"So you don’t need to rely on fat (and sluggish) tyres to cushion your ride."* Obviously, the inventor isn't aware of recent research – in part by *Bicycle Quarterly* – that has shown that wider tires don't roll any slower than narrow ones. Hence even professional racers adopting wider tires at lower pressures.
Generally, classic bicycles really are highly evolved and very complex, interdependent machines. You cannot change just one parameter (say a tubing diameter) without affecting everything else. The biomechanic interactions of rider and bike are not yet well-understood, and the traditional solutions evolved through trial and error, which is hard to beat for systems you only partially understand. Even the best modern carbon and ti bikes have a balance of the frame tube stiffness and feel that is very similar to a classic steel bike. Jan Heine Editor Bicycle Quarterly http://www.bikequarterly.com Follow our blog at http://janheine.wordpress.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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
