So I suppose professional biking is getting crashier.
One attainable resolution?
Heavier bikes!
This may introduce “better components of security,’ which is a elaborate means of claiming…security:
Why use one phrase when you should use 4? Why name Froot Loops “scrumptious” when you may say they’ve a “increased issue of deliciousness?” I suppose it’s the identical purpose bike reviewers can not point out “worth” and as a substitute should check with “worth level.” Does anyone stroll right into a bodega and say, “Hey, my man, what’s the value level on these Tic Tacs?” No they don’t. I don’t know what the distinction between “worth” and “worth level” is, however I do assume they need to take all of it the way in which and go together with “worth level issue.”
However sure, I agree a motorcycle with a better issue of weight would introduce a better issue of security–with the additional benefit that it will in all probability cut back the value level issue significantly. I’d begin with a extra strong body materials, then increase the bars a bit and broaden the wheelbase issue for added stability, and maybe even improve the tire width issue for better traction and higher shock absorption. All of this might little question have the additional benefit of an elevated issue of consolation, which might lead to a correspondingly lowered issue of exhaustion on the finish of an extended stage, in the end enhancing the issue of security even additional. The truth is, the UCI is already working with bicycle designers as I sort this, and I simply occur to have spy images of a prototype:
And in the event that they actually wish to introduce a better 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, form of like when folks hand out these disposable cameras at weddings. Then after the race they might develop the images 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 every other is GT:
[From here.]
I by no means had a GT bike, however I did have numerous GT elements, like handlebars, and a layback seatpost, and tires I assumed have been tremendous cool as a result of they got here in colours and had knobs that spelled out “GT.” I additionally keep in mind the winged emblem that stated “Huntington Seaside, CA” on it:
As a child in dreary New York thumbing by magazines, it appeared like life in California should be an infinite existence of ramps, empty swimming pools, BMX bikes and skateboards, and Black Flag reveals.
Anyway, although 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 appears like this can be the tip:
The story notes GT’s BMX, mountain bike, and street legacy:
And naturally additionally they provided bikes for the US Nationwide Group:
[GT Superbike, via Classic Cycle]
And who might neglect this?
[Also via Classic Cycle]
However aside from 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 like they grew to become simply one other Pon model, however possibly as a substitute they need to have reinvented themselves as a throwback aluminum bike firm. In any case, aluminum is the brand new metal–simply ask Ultraromance, who’s made a cottage trade of bringing again the types of ’90s-era aluminum bikes that have been as soon as GT’s inventory in commerce:
And what in regards to the GTB?
[From here.]
Regardless of being utterly unremarkable aside from the triple triangle, it’s turn out to be a cult traditional. Have you ever seen what folks need for these items?
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 a substitute it looks like they’re promoting a bunch of bikes no person 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 may’t miss.
