ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene cables
>>2080274suffer from creep, unlike steel cableshigher friction than ptfe covered steel in lubed ptfe housingssave a couple grams per bike, you'll save by not eating that mixed nuts protein bar, mr frederick cucumberdick
>>2080274what frame is that. I'm a dick brake nazi but I'd have sex with those brakes
Pretty fuckin sexy even if kinda no reason
>>2080276>dick brakeoh you're that retard? no answer from me then
>>2080289>no reasonweight gainz, better feedback, less vibration
>>2080291so fucking marginal that they are imperceptible even to the freddiest of freds
>>2080291Yeah maybe but im looking at my bike rn and thinking “can i be bothered to try this experiment”Probably not
>>2080274now that you mention it, whipper snipper cable is cheap and light and slick. i wonder if it would have any problems other than the mating surfaces where it has to actually actuate something. i guess it might stretch faster than steel cable and it might be hard to find thin enough stuff but also you can find people offloading 500ft reels of the stuff for cheap every fallmight try it out when i run out of junk cables
>>2080290huh? everyone says that
>>2080274a solution in search of a problem.that frame has a badge on the rear of the seat tube. never seen that before. can't read it except "USA" but the 3 stars suggest the Tennessee flag
>>2080274>rim brakes on le aero crabbon rim>>2080275its always funny seeing people wig out about weight savings less than one good shitliterally just one day of fasting before riding would save you more weight than this nonsense
>>2080290"that retard", lol. first day on /n/?
>>2080275It always baffles me when people who are completely batshit obsessed with gear dig up some hair-splitting difference between the gear that they are OBSESSED with, and then build this straw man where Guy I Don't Like prefers the gear that is 0.02g lighter for $100 more, and they KNOW all these hair splitting minute details and have violently strong opinions about it, and yet for some reason I'm the bad guy for just happening to own a bike that probably has the better shit even though I never looked into the differences or gave the cost a moment's consideration, I bought this bike because it was black and I liked batman and you're sperging the fuck out and sending death threats to me, the supposed gearhead, because you can't stop obsessing over me and my slightly nicer thing that I don't even know what brand it is but you know the exact USPTO patent number and SKU number and current street price
>brakes get hot from long descent>cable starts to melt and stretchLMAO
>>2080274polyethylene is a trash polymer, high-molecular-weight (or just high density, which is how people in the industry actually call it) or not.Literally, it's what we use to make trash bags
>>2080354>UHMWPE is the same as PELMAO
>>2080354it's a versatile wonder polymerand uhmwpe compared to regular pe is like 100 octane compared to 80
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>>2080351what not being a loser does to a mf
