Right?! What does shoes size correlate to, if not foot length??!! Bonkers.
Even if he was like “I need to know the measurement from the back of the foot to the cleat placement” I could understand that as like the lever length, but just to be like ‘no shoes sizes, foot length only’ 
the shoe size is literally the length of the foot that fits in the shoe.
he still seems like a self important blow hard compared to fabrication & general humbleness of Chapman or English.
I’m gonna be real, I don’t care that he’s a butthole, in fact I’ve come to love his whole schtick, even if it’s not a schtick.
“here’s what’s available it’s one option and it doesn’t make sense and im right, if you’d like to still give me money you can and we both know you will.”
Sort of my hero. Publicly sniffing your own farts and making a living out of it.
It is definitely a schtick
You’re born naked, everything else is a shtick.
Anyone want to guess which weighs the most, middle, and least. Including headset and 40mm of steerer only.
All city, soma, Raleigh
All City
Raleigh
Soma
Most - Raleigh
Middle - All City
least - Soma
Nice job
All-City 2,550g+1,240g = 3,790g
Raleigh 1,950g+1,475g = 3,425g
Soma 1,975g+990g = 2,965g
I’m impressed by the low end Raleigh MTB frame and MRP Baxter. I think it’s pretty competitive versus a regular steel gravel or all-road bike.
1.2kg for a rigid fork is kind of embarrassing, I imagine it’s a heavy steerer and crown?
Decorative dropouts and beefy legs too. It’s heavy but still better than a lot of the monster unicrown jobs that are common now.
My Black Mountain Road+ fork is 2.8 pounds it’s insane
I remember weighing my BMC monstercross fork when I built it up and got in the 1200g range. Can’t recall if that was cut or uncut, though. and that’s for rim brakes!
curious to hear from some framebuilders about lighter steerers or other modifiable drivers of fork weight
Steel forks have a high minimum weight - the steerer and crown are beefy because of all the forces that they handle. Now that we have discs the entire fork leg needs to be reinforced to handle the torque, rather than it all being taken by the crown in a rim brake.
There’s a reason you see so many carbon forks on otherwise alloy builds.
I think Igor previously explained the weight was driven by the need to pass fatigue testing.
gotta stand up against grant with a carbon fork in a fork fight
But it’ll just snap, his steel fork will bend gracefully and be repaired
you do not benefit from it at all in actual riding
that high minimum weight is to be cheaply manufactured and pass lab testing that is even less representative of use than Grant’s swordfighting antics
another way to state the problem is that a traditional single-butted tapered fork blade is extra-unreinforced through the middle of the taper where the top of a caliper mount lands — it’s gone from the thick end at the crown to the thin section already, but the taper reduction in diameter hasn’t multiplied the wall thickness enough yet
