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Who is at fault and how should it be dealt?
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], Ryan Cousineau wrote: In article , BT Humble wrote: On Nov 27, 1:50 pm, Artoi wrote: In article , "Theo Bekkers" wrote: Artoi wrote: But going back. I note that there are some riders object to people riding high end bikes and make statements like "No way am I going to pay for that CF bike". Reverse snobbery? BTHcould be saying "I'm not going to pay for that $600 Columbus frame, they should be riding a K-Mart bike like I am", but I can't picture him in the Hell Ride peleton. :-) Yes, I would take it as a form of reverse snobbery too. -- Hmm, and all this last week I was thinking that the burning feeling in my ears was just because of the sunburn! ;-) Much as I hate to have to admit that I'm not perfect in every way, there *is* a substantial element of reverse snobbery in what I'm doing. If you're trying to win big-name races where the difference between first and second place is measured in fractions of a second over a 100km race I suppose I can see how lighter weight, etc. might make a difference. However for your average club rider *it appears to me* that the performance-return-on-investment falls off a cliff once you go over $2k or so. I bid $1000. Others in my club would bid $500. -- |
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Who is at fault and how should it be dealt?
performance-return-on-investment falls off a cliff
once you go over $2k or so. I bid $1000. Others in my club would bid $500. Depends on the club. We had a guy riding with us one winter riding on a cheap mountain bike with knobbies, while we were on road bikes. He did PBP a few months later (unless that was the year he did BMB). (PBP is Paris-Brest-Paris in 90 hours. BMB is similar, but Boston-Montreal-Boston). For him, the cheaper the mountain bike, and the knobbier the knobbies, the more performance enhancement he got. |
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