Thanks Mark,
It's really just intended as food for thought and if I make some contribution to eroding the idea that mountain biking is more prohibitively expensive then it already is that's awesome too.
It's also why I ride [**$1000 bikes**](https://nsmb.com/articles/2020-rocky-mountain-growler-20/) down Ned's and Lower Crippler when I have access to fancy sh*t.
I'll leave the A/B testing to someone else though. Just thinking about organizing a suitable sample size of various sized riders and various bikes, and setting them up, and managing whatever level of disrepair on the used bikes, and trying to baseline tires, and then trying to say anything meaningful makes me feel ill. That's why this is editorial not science, and it sounds like some riders have gotten something out of it vis-a-vis their own rigs and that's really cool.
Cheers,
Feb. 14, 2020, 11:14 p.m. - Andrew Major
Thanks Mark, It's really just intended as food for thought and if I make some contribution to eroding the idea that mountain biking is more prohibitively expensive then it already is that's awesome too. It's also why I ride [**$1000 bikes**](https://nsmb.com/articles/2020-rocky-mountain-growler-20/) down Ned's and Lower Crippler when I have access to fancy sh*t. I'll leave the A/B testing to someone else though. Just thinking about organizing a suitable sample size of various sized riders and various bikes, and setting them up, and managing whatever level of disrepair on the used bikes, and trying to baseline tires, and then trying to say anything meaningful makes me feel ill. That's why this is editorial not science, and it sounds like some riders have gotten something out of it vis-a-vis their own rigs and that's really cool. Cheers,