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Originally Posted by Mark McM
Your right, comfort is about more than just vertical compliance. But I think we can agree that it starts there - sitting on anything that perfectly rigid won't be very comfortable. And since there is so little vertical compliance in the frame, it might as well be perfectly rigid, and therefore it contributes essentially nothing to comfort.
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A bike does not only flex up and down. How do you ride your bikes? Do you "ride" them by stripping them down to the frame and stand in one plane on the top tube and exert force perfectly vertically? The truss analogy is flawed, which the entire video is based on.
If comfort includes vertical compliance, it also doesn't end there. Let me make a shirt of rubber with the same stretchiness as cotton and say it's as comfortable as cotton.
