Pete you don't have to take blame of anything!
I'm sure the no maintenance claim came out in the press release it's not your own claim.
My purpose wasn't that of upsetting you or being pedant, i didn't even want to pick on this technology in particular, i'm just really annoyed by hyperboles and absolute truths (and acronyms btw) plaguing the language of this industry.
Why can't everybody just put technologies in terms of options?
All i see is a mechanical device made of a multitude of parts put togheter with some fasteners inside the main frame of the bike anchored to the frame and the fork's steerer tube. I strongly doubt this will unaffect normal maintenance of any bike (picture cleaning and greasing the headset parts as an example) so i can accept to a degree that the device itself can be free of maintenance but it will surely add to other maintenance procedures.
I was speaking in general, mountain bikes are the most maintenance heavy bikes ever, with or without steering dampers.
Oct. 26, 2022, 1:51 p.m. - danithemechanic
Pete you don't have to take blame of anything! I'm sure the no maintenance claim came out in the press release it's not your own claim. My purpose wasn't that of upsetting you or being pedant, i didn't even want to pick on this technology in particular, i'm just really annoyed by hyperboles and absolute truths (and acronyms btw) plaguing the language of this industry. Why can't everybody just put technologies in terms of options? All i see is a mechanical device made of a multitude of parts put togheter with some fasteners inside the main frame of the bike anchored to the frame and the fork's steerer tube. I strongly doubt this will unaffect normal maintenance of any bike (picture cleaning and greasing the headset parts as an example) so i can accept to a degree that the device itself can be free of maintenance but it will surely add to other maintenance procedures. I was speaking in general, mountain bikes are the most maintenance heavy bikes ever, with or without steering dampers.