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Knowledge and truth are always an approximation, hopefully with every revision, getting closer to an unreachable absolute.
At least, that's how I view science. It's never static, always subject to change, as it should be. In our little world, crank length has evolved and not in a vacuum, either. When Indurain won the Tour in the 90's on 180mm cranks, what was the lowest gear most pro racers (on Campy) had? Maybe 42-24? Somewhere in that range? So the longer levers maybe made sense for a 6-2 rider. And now, along with shorter cranks, we have much much lower gear ranges to work with, so there's no reason for ever dropping down to 50-60rpm cadences like back in the old days. (Watch the video of Merckx in the 70's in the Giro - the cadences of them climbing are painful to watch, with their whole body rocking.) So I'm not gonna worry about experts and the like. I'll take current trends as useful bits to consider, and some work well. As far as 120 psi and 20mm tires, that may still be the way to go on a banked wooden oval track. |
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Yes, that was BS you got taught and the current crop of “facts” has a lot of BS in it as well. We don’t have very many facts at all about dinosaurs so most of the info we think we have is just guessing. Similar situation with planets.
Experts like to turn their guessing into facts but it is a bad habit. We should be more honest about what we actually know. Quote:
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Time flies like the wind.
. . . . . . . . . Fruit flies like - - - - - Thank Zuess we don't believe everything today that we did back then. It's called progress. You live. You learn. You bleed. You learn. You live, you live you learn.. a-woooooo.
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A very smart member of my thesis committee told me during my defense (after I took a pretty strong position on a point that had not been investigate much at that point), be careful what you draw a line in the sand on, that is unless you are prepared to eat crow when someone else finds strong evidence to the contrary.
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with most everything these days, the only thing I go with is what feels right and is comfortable.
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Most of the things you note, does not look to me like experts giving their expertise. But rather people, or a bunch of people somewhat in agreement, giving their opinions.
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Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called "wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk."
Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties. Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge? Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true. Dr. Melik: Incredible. Last edited by happycampyer; 04-02-2024 at 04:42 AM. |
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Experts
I recall an article a few years back about bike fitting. This fellow went to 5 or 6 "super expert" fitters. A lot of $ spent, but it was for the article. I am no expert at reading numbers but all of them came out with different fit numbers for his bike set up. Yet the common approach is "you HAVE to go to a fitter."
Read a bit and you find there are these different approaches to fitting. Add in each fitter's subjectivity. I concluded - do what is comfortable for you, experiment a bit. Consider the cost involved and what you want to spend (rim vs. disc, tire size, etc ). And be at peace. |
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The problem in recent times is that many of the experts are employees of the marketing department.
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We have very limited, possibly no access to truth. This means our “truths” will always turn out wrong or at least incomplete. Nobody needs to be blamed for that. The problem is when people are misled or bullied by overconfident “experts”. We should all recognize the limits of our own knowledge and knowledge in general A reminder, 65 psi 700x35 tires are no slower than 120 psi 23s. We were all amazingly wrong.
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Bicycle fit is weird, seems to be a strange mix of superstition and fashion.
The way people talk about / obey their bike fit….. well, just strange. Certainly they know some stuff but it ain’t a science, it’s barely an art. I was talking to a bike builder who built a bike for a customer, they rode it around and liked it, then went to get a fit, the guy told him he couldn’t get the bike to fit him so he sold it. Well, what can you say. Quote:
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