[quote=surfimp]He goes on and on about snapped carbon forks, but honestly I’ve heard very little about this.
It’s certainly a concern I have with respect to carbon fiber - I’ve played with it a lot in a non-cycling context and as a result, it’s not my bicycle frame material of choice - but have not really read too many accounts of carbon forks snapping.
It’s a bit hard to believe companies would bring such an allegedly dangerous material to market, and promote it so broadly, given the extremely litigious nature of modern (American) society.[/quote]
Yeah, I don’t know what the fuck Grant is on about when it comes to carbon forks.
Yeah, they won’t last 20 years like steel, but they’re not going to expire in 5 years. Yes, they can be delicate, but they’re also 2-3x as strong and half the weight of a good steel fork.
Thanks for that link. I like the b&w old school journal format.
Pretty good short article on cornering.
The article on electronic DA was basically an emotional appeal/logical fallacy, but what else are you going to expect from Luddites? I guess it’s a good alternative perspective to the “HOLY SHIT THIS IS TEH BEST!!!” opinion of Velonews, Bicycling etc.
I don’t know why Grant made a big deal out of the reversed stem. The bars ended up putting the hands in a position very similar to a cruiser bar. How the hands got in that position is not important, all that matters is where they are relative to the axis of the steerer tube. If there was a lot of vertical displacement (like apehangers or something) then bar/stem flex and ergonomics would come more into play, but for where they were located in the example at hand, the reverse stem was completely irrelevant. Aside from looking dorky.
RR41 had a huge interview with Mark Sisson, who is way into fats used as fuel and other “primally based” stuff. His book is for sale on teh rivbike site too.
Different approach, but yeah, much the same result, I s’pose.
Well, fats are used as fuel for base type efforts, i.e. long slow distance.
Regarding dietary fat, medium chain fatty acids (saturated fat found mainly in coconut oil and a few other foods) can be metabolized reasonably well for fuel.