Now that wider tires on road bikes are the default and you can barely even find a rim brake bike for sale anymore (other than at the antique store), how long before Big Cycling realizes there's no more upgrades to sell and if they want to continue selling bikes now they have to promote thin, high pressure tires and turn of the century frames as an improvement (complete with convincing-looking data presented by convincing-sounding "engineers")
2 more weeks
>>2065818use hydraulic disc brakes. they work much better than pincher style rim brakes.
Road bikes have been more than good enough since the late 90s MTB is where any sort of innovation has been madeWhat's next? Uhh full suspension road bikes2.1" knobby tires on road bikes Dropper seat posts on road bikesFlat bars on road bikesNah bikes are fine and have been more than good enough for ages It's the road, infrastructure, and a work life balance to actually be able to travel and use transportation more often and more easily
