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10/5/2024, 2:39:33 PM
>>2020833
The real challenge lies in the industry digesting all of this stuff into better, more elegant and more reliable forms. Most cons00mers don't really notice or care about below-surface quality or simplicity so I'm not terribly hopeful it'll happen. We'll never get back to the kind of universality of standards we had in the 80's, but even moving a little bit that way would benefit the rider unfathomably.
Who knows what's around the corner though. Until the mountain bike boom and shimano takeover shook everything up, improvements had been scattered and relatively unexciting for decades. Especially in the U.S., if you were seriously riding in the 60's or 70's, it probably felt like, "now everyone has derailleurs, what else is there to come up with?!"
>>2020865
What's the story with this new-old looking stumpy, pretty cool
The real challenge lies in the industry digesting all of this stuff into better, more elegant and more reliable forms. Most cons00mers don't really notice or care about below-surface quality or simplicity so I'm not terribly hopeful it'll happen. We'll never get back to the kind of universality of standards we had in the 80's, but even moving a little bit that way would benefit the rider unfathomably.
Who knows what's around the corner though. Until the mountain bike boom and shimano takeover shook everything up, improvements had been scattered and relatively unexciting for decades. Especially in the U.S., if you were seriously riding in the 60's or 70's, it probably felt like, "now everyone has derailleurs, what else is there to come up with?!"
>>2020865
What's the story with this new-old looking stumpy, pretty cool
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