As for the industry: They will tell you what a product is supposed to do for you but you won’t know if true or false until you use the component yourself. This, of course, is after you have bought the item. So best thing is to research what a product is told will do for you, then read reviews by users on various internet cycling pages to get opinions from end users. Not cycling publications but forums and independent cycling pages like there is a mountain biker page that does tons of real user reviews on all kindsa bike stuff. etc. That said, top “experts” will all conflict in their beliefs which is why everyday people reviewers are best.
Example: BQ says 650b fastest. Points to Herse as 650b bike designer. Boulder Bikes says that is a industry myth and that 700c is fastest which is why Herse changed to 700c in later years. Lon Haldeman said that muscles, not bikes win races. I would extrapolate that to mean it dont matter what you ride; if you slow, you slow. After many component purchases alleging they will make me faster I have come to agree with Lon Haldeman. My legs just don’t have the muscle power to go more than 16 mile per hour average speeds no matter what I ride. I am just slow. Now some things I have found to be true: Wider supple tires make for a cushier ride than narrow tires pumped to 100+ psi. Rounded tire profiles (Grand Bois tires) corner smoother and better and are less divy than oval shaped tire profiles(Marathons). But these things I had to find out by trying, even after user reviews. Sometimes only one review found can address what you are wanting to know before buying and trying: Do Selle Anatomica X2?saddles have as much suspension as a sprung Brooks saddle? Here is the one answer you will find online based on me riding 2 of each: Almost. Very close. Enough that you can ride an X2 with just aboutvthe same level of bounce and cush. And at 1/2 the weight. Also, the reviewer should be like you. If you are a regular person and not a racer, listen to what the regular reviewers are saying. I think sometimes some performance enhancements of products can only be realized by elite riders, like speed gains of bladed spokes and aero, lightest bike frames, etc. -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
