You can see why those Radavist folks just threw their hands up and went straight to 90s bikes turned into SS clunkers; switched fancy baggies for cut-off jean shorts and Tevas and went camping. Keeping up with these unnecessary changes can hurt.
I seem to keep in front of it because I'm a 1%er who can't just walk into a shop and buy a complete bike that fits me so I'm forced into the replace frame one year, lots of components the next, repeat. And TBH that's fine with me, I love bike parts. I have the time and inclination to do it that way. Every so often I have to get a new headset or BB to accommodate some new standard.
But for some standards we really need to get our shit together: headsets, BBs (why can't we all agree on T47 or some other big modular system) in particular.
And to be fair, seatposts are silly too. Have you seen the shim between 30.9 and 31.6?? It's paper thin - just pick one FFS. We could have small/road (27.2), most mountain (31.6) and the new big (34.9). And eventually end up with just small and big.
And for all these new unnecessary standards we can't work out a better solution for tire inflation than the old presta valve system? That system is way past its prime now that tubeless is ubiquitous. Here is a spot ripe for a rethink but people are so primed against new standards that it will take a lot to overcome that initial response no matter how good the proposed solution. If only there was a way to drill bigger holes in rims to an existing familiar standard so they could also be shimmed down to use presta and be backwards compatible!
Aug. 25, 2021, 7:13 a.m. - Cr4w
You can see why those Radavist folks just threw their hands up and went straight to 90s bikes turned into SS clunkers; switched fancy baggies for cut-off jean shorts and Tevas and went camping. Keeping up with these unnecessary changes can hurt. I seem to keep in front of it because I'm a 1%er who can't just walk into a shop and buy a complete bike that fits me so I'm forced into the replace frame one year, lots of components the next, repeat. And TBH that's fine with me, I love bike parts. I have the time and inclination to do it that way. Every so often I have to get a new headset or BB to accommodate some new standard. But for some standards we really need to get our shit together: headsets, BBs (why can't we all agree on T47 or some other big modular system) in particular. And to be fair, seatposts are silly too. Have you seen the shim between 30.9 and 31.6?? It's paper thin - just pick one FFS. We could have small/road (27.2), most mountain (31.6) and the new big (34.9). And eventually end up with just small and big. And for all these new unnecessary standards we can't work out a better solution for tire inflation than the old presta valve system? That system is way past its prime now that tubeless is ubiquitous. Here is a spot ripe for a rethink but people are so primed against new standards that it will take a lot to overcome that initial response no matter how good the proposed solution. If only there was a way to drill bigger holes in rims to an existing familiar standard so they could also be shimmed down to use presta and be backwards compatible!