- Right Christiano, Bike Rumor and Bike Radar has their agenda, to make money pushing their sponsors stuff as being the best, when sometimes their not even close to being the best. I went off on Bike Radar once for doing a review on titanium bikes, I think there were around 6 different brands they yakked about, and not ONE WORD about Lynskey, and Lynskey is the family that founded and owned Litespeed, that created the innovations to make TI tubings and the welding process that ALL other TI makers now use; I also told them that Lynskey should have been their number one mentioned TI bike builder. I never checked to see if they kept my post.
A lot of cycling rags are the same way, they'll never come out and say some product is junk, they say cute stuff like, "this is a great bike here are the pros, the cons are if you're a racing type you may want more stiffness"; then they'll flip it around on the next bike, "this is a great bike here are the pros, the con is if you're not a racer you may want a more compliant bike"; or they'll say that the placement of some item should be moved 1/2 an inch, something mundane and stupid, but nothing bad is ever said.
You always have to mindful of when reading websites about what is their bottom line, and usually it's money. This is the reason why too you never read anything bad about carbon fiber, or the superiority of disk brakes vs rim brakes when the fact is that rim brakes are disk brakes!
I saw those two British racing guys on You Tube, I think the channel is called GBU? I don't remember, but anyways they were testing disk brakes vs rim brakes, and the disk brakes stopped in shorter distance every time...except the guy on the disk brake bike would slide his butt a bit rearward putting a bit more weight on the rear tire! also they were testing both using a carbon fiber rim and brake track, and pads don't do well on that that type of braking track surface. I tested my rim brakes vs and friends disk brakes, he had better tires than I had, we ran the test in 3 sets, each set was increasing the speed by 5 mph, and we both always stopped within a few inches of each other, sometimes I stopped faster and sometimes he did which was probably due to reaction time, and we had to stay firmly seated in our seat. The last set we did at 25 mph my rim brake bike was actually stopping faster as that test progressed, we figured out that the disk brake was fading from repeated full on stops.