So I assume professional biking is getting crashier.
One doable resolution?
Heavier bikes!
This is able to introduce “larger components of security,’ which is a elaborate means of claiming…security:
Why use one phrase when you need to use 4? Why name Froot Loops “scrumptious” when you’ll be able to say they’ve a “larger issue of deliciousness?” I assume it’s the identical motive bike reviewers can not point out “worth” and as an alternative need to discuss with “worth level.” Does anyone stroll right into a bodega and say, “Hey, my man, what’s the worth level on these Tic Tacs?” No they don’t. I do not know what the distinction between “worth” and “worth level” is, however I do suppose they need to take all of it the best way and go along with “worth level issue.”
However sure, I agree a motorbike with a larger issue of weight would introduce a larger issue of security–with the additional advantage that it could in all probability scale back the worth level issue significantly. I’d begin with a extra strong body materials, then elevate the bars a bit and develop the wheelbase issue for added stability, and even perhaps improve the tire width issue for larger traction and higher shock absorption. All of this could little question have the additional advantage of an elevated issue of consolation, which might lead to a correspondingly diminished issue of exhaustion on the finish of a protracted stage, in the end enhancing the issue of security even additional. In actual fact, the UCI is already working with bicycle designers as I sort this, and I simply occur to have spy pictures of a prototype:
And in the event that they actually wish to introduce a larger issue of security enhancement, they need to do away with the press motorbikes and provides every rider an analog digicam to maintain in his waxed handlebar bag, type of like when individuals hand out these disposable cameras at weddings. Then after the race they might develop the pictures and launch them to the media. Drawback solved.
Talking of non sequiturs, right here’s one–once I consider my formative bicycling years, one model that stands out maybe greater than some other is GT:
[From here.]
I by no means had a GT bike, however I did have varied GT elements, like handlebars, and a layback seatpost, and tires I believed had been tremendous cool as a result of they got here in colours and had knobs that spelled out “GT.” I additionally bear in mind the winged brand that mentioned “Huntington Seaside, CA” on it:
As a child in dreary New York thumbing by magazines, it appeared like life in California have to be an limitless existence of ramps, empty swimming pools, BMX bikes and skateboards, and Black Flag exhibits.
Anyway, despite the fact that GT has one thing of a Proustian impact on me, I haven’t paid consideration to them in fairly awhile–and presumably I’m not alone, as a result of it seems like this can be the top:
The story notes GT’s BMX, mountain bike, and street legacy:
And naturally additionally they provided bikes for the US Nationwide Crew:
[GT Superbike, via Classic Cycle]
And who might overlook this?
[Also via Classic Cycle]
However other than the BMX bikes of my youth, the opposite factor I most affiliate with them is their aluminum bikes of the late ’90s and early aughts:
[Via here]
It looks as if they grew to become simply one other Pon model, however possibly as an alternative they need to have reinvented themselves as a throwback aluminum bike firm. In spite of everything, aluminum is the brand new metal–simply ask Ultraromance, who’s made a cottage business of bringing again the types of ’90s-era aluminum bikes that had been as soon as GT’s inventory in commerce:
And what concerning the GTB?
[From here.]
Regardless of being fully unremarkable other than the triple triangle, it’s grow to be a cult basic. Have you ever seen what individuals need for this stuff?
I imply get actual:
Paradoxically, if GT had merely introduced again the GTB precisely because it was and offered it and nothing else, they’d in all probability be thriving proper now. However as an alternative it looks as if they’re promoting a bunch of bikes no one actually requested them for as a result of each different firm will promote you just about the very same factor:
There’s nonetheless time, GT. Deliver again the Zaskar, the GT ZR-whatever the Lotto street bike was, and the GTB, unchanged. That’s all you want. You possibly can’t miss.
