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Originally Posted by martl
Definitely marketing. A bike frame is 11 tubes connected. If someone sees a whiff of a chance to do something a tiny bit different than the competition which does 99.9% the exact same product, they will. The bull****ters from marketing will explain the customer why "different" has to be better.
Its a common thing ever since the market changed from "lets sell this person a bike and sell him another one in 20 years from now" to "market sesearch says the average consumer is willing to fork out $$$ for a new item on average every 3 years if we give him enough incentive to lie to himself that theres a noticeable improvement (works in other fields of the hobby/consumer market as well, skis, cars, tv sets, etc. etc...)
Can you explain how any of the variations Clancy mentioned should do anything to "brake efficiency"?
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