On: Greg LeMond’s New 26 LB. Carbon Fiber Ebike

[masklinn]

> I'm a fluid dynamics researcher, and I'll tell you the money these people spend on "aero" and "weight saving" and "higher drivetrain efficiency" stuff is 99.9% snake oil. Unless you are among the top 1000 road bike racers in the world.

So, biking audiophilia.

[tigen → masklinn]

At least weight saving is easily measurable and indisputable. Audiophilia focuses mostly on areas that are not so easily quantifiable.

[darkerside → tigen]

I've heard audiophilia derided as the practice of listening to the noise instead of the music, sand that was enough for me to get off the train and never think twice.

[locusm → masklinn]

Carbon frames are worth it for the damping factor alone if you ride for more than an hour a week IMHO.