Here is a great lesson to file under 'The bike doesn't matter' for all of you hardware whores.
I was out on a group ride with the local wrecking crew. Fast expert and sport mountain bikers riding road bikes. One of the expert guys, former state champ winner and such a general bad ass that the meanest part of one of the local rock quarry turned mountain bike parks is named after him.
Anyway he usually rides usually older and sometimes hand me down hardware. His road bike is an old beat up Cannondale from the 1980s that he found in the trash a few months back. This thing is corroded, beat to **** and has the SWEET 1980s style 36 hole heavy rims.
And on that beat up old POS bike he put the wood to several titanium-carbon-uber-bling riding peeps.
So next time you're discussing arguing the performance difference between radial and single cross wheel lacing, or the difference between 1" and 1-1/8 inch steerer tubes or some other ******** that really doesn't matter. Think about this guy on his garbage pile Cannondale.
I was out on a group ride with the local wrecking crew. Fast expert and sport mountain bikers riding road bikes. One of the expert guys, former state champ winner and such a general bad ass that the meanest part of one of the local rock quarry turned mountain bike parks is named after him.
Anyway he usually rides usually older and sometimes hand me down hardware. His road bike is an old beat up Cannondale from the 1980s that he found in the trash a few months back. This thing is corroded, beat to **** and has the SWEET 1980s style 36 hole heavy rims.
And on that beat up old POS bike he put the wood to several titanium-carbon-uber-bling riding peeps.
So next time you're discussing arguing the performance difference between radial and single cross wheel lacing, or the difference between 1" and 1-1/8 inch steerer tubes or some other ******** that really doesn't matter. Think about this guy on his garbage pile Cannondale.