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Originally Posted by martl
Let me correct: the big brands have the marketing budget to rent a wind tunnel and shoot a few nice pictures for the ads, and pay some. Dude to write some cattle manure "study" why their design will save you any amount of watts, and they can sponsor a pro team.
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I understand why you're skeptical, and believe me I love everything about steel bikes. I race road, cross, and track on steel bikes, and have a stack of tubes and lugs in my basement I'm hoping to braze this winter but:
Modern carbon bikes are so ridiculously fast there isn't any comparison at all, and that's 100% due to engineers and wind tunnels. Riding something like a System Six, which consistently tests as the fastest road bike, is absolutely and instantly noticeable as faster. Even around a parking lot. It isn't even close, and you don't need to be going 40-50km/h to notice. There's so much to love about steel bikes but pretending that carbon bikes do not have a LOT of science and design to them is naive and incorrect.