So I assume professional biking is getting crashier.
One potential resolution?
This is able to introduce “larger components of security,’ which is a flowery method of claiming…security:
Why use one phrase when you should use 4? Why name Froot Loops “scrumptious” when you’ll be able to say they’ve a “greater issue of deliciousness?” I assume it’s the identical purpose bike reviewers can now not point out “value” and as an alternative must consult with “value 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 don’t know what the distinction between “value” and “value level” is, however I do suppose they need to take all of it the way in which and go together with “value level issue.”
However sure, I agree a motorcycle with a larger issue of weight would introduce a larger 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 increase the wheelbase issue for added stability, and even perhaps improve the tire width issue for larger traction and higher shock absorption. All of this could little doubt have the additional benefit of an elevated issue of consolation, which might lead to a correspondingly diminished issue of exhaustion on the finish of an extended stage, in the end enhancing the issue of security even additional. In actual fact, the UCI is already working with bicycle designers as I sort this, and I simply occur to have spy pictures of a prototype:
And in the event that they actually wish to introduce a larger 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 individuals hand out these disposable cameras at weddings. Then after the race they might develop the pictures 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 numerous GT elements, like handlebars, and a layback seatpost, and tires I assumed had 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 brand that mentioned “Huntington Seaside, CA” on it:
As a child in dreary New York thumbing by means of magazines, it appeared like life in California should be an countless existence of ramps, empty swimming pools, BMX bikes and skateboards, and Black Flag reveals.
Anyway, despite the fact 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 seems like this can be the top:
The story notes GT’s BMX, mountain bike, and street legacy:
And naturally additionally they provided bikes for the US Nationwide Staff:
[GT Superbike, via Classic Cycle]
And who may overlook 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 as if they turned simply one other Pon model, however possibly as an alternative they need to have reinvented themselves as a throwback aluminum bike firm. In any case, aluminum is the brand new metal–simply ask Ultraromance, who’s made a cottage trade of bringing again the types of ’90s-era aluminum bikes that had been as soon as GT’s inventory in commerce:
And what concerning the GTB?
[From here.]
Regardless of being utterly unremarkable other than the triple triangle, it’s develop into a cult basic. Have you ever seen what individuals need for these items?
I imply get actual:
Paradoxically, if GT had merely introduced again the GTB precisely because it was and bought it and nothing else, they’d in all probability be thriving proper now. However as an alternative it looks as if 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. Deliver again the Zaskar, the GT ZR-whatever the Lotto street bike was, and the GTB, unchanged. That’s all you want. You may’t miss.
