What? The utterance of Specialized's marketing shill -- sorry, I meant, Company Representative -- didn't reassure you???!!!
Chris Riekert, a spokesman for Specialized <http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bikes?gclid=CLahiKKi478CFQto7AodHl8A0w>, an American company that supplies bikes to three Tour teams, said in a statement, “Carbon gives our engineers the ability to produce *much stronger and *lighter products than traditional steel or alloy by letting us put more material in high stress areas to ensure performance and safety in real world riding conditions.” Seriously, all: let us scrupulously distinguish between carbon fiber itself and the stupid light paradigm. Jan Heine reviewed what looked to be a very practical and nice riding rando bike done in CF by Calfee in a recent issue of BQ. On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Anne Paulson <[email protected]> wrote: > As Technology Makes Bicycles Lighter and Faster, It’s the Cyclists Falling > Harder > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/sports/cycling/as-technology-makes-bicycles-lighter-and-faster-it8217s-the-cyclists-falling-harder.html?ref=sports&_r=0 > > “Anyone in a team who’s being honest with you will tell you how frequently > their bikes are breaking; everybody knows,” said Mark Greve, a physician > and assistant professor of sports medicine at Brown University who studied > injuries to 3,500 competitive cyclists. “Few people in the public > appreciate how many bikes a pro team will go through in a season, because > they break for one reason or another. The bikes, they completely explode.” > > (The link might be gated. Try Googling the headline to find a free source > if you hit a paywall.) > > > > -- > -- Anne Paulson > > It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ Patrick Moore Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Etats Unis ************************************* * "Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.* * "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't to look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where in your time and your body can they be?* * "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried. "Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of you can find it?” -- *Flannery O'Connor,* Wise Blood * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
