Sudden catastrophic failure is of the reason carbon fiber mountain bikes are a dangerous development.
Modern mountain bikes live in this weird consumer space. They are designed to stand up to incredible stresses while remaining light and agile. But they're increasingly purchased by people who don't really need high performance gear, they just like the idea of owning "the best" stuff.
I imagine the same thing is true with pickup trucks. What once was utilitarian becomes a vanity object. Now it's harder for people who genuinely need the performance.
What once was utilitarian becomes a vanity object. Now it's harder for people who genuinely need the performance.
The bike space is full of people screeching about how you'll catastrophically break stuff if you use your bike for all its worth, just like the vehicle space is.
And "the best" for those people is definitely not a mountain bike. But I'm sure it's the same factor as for SUVs, it looks cool and is big and scary. Pretty much everyone would be better off with a citybike and a decent geartrain + wheels
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Sudden catastrophic failure is of the reason carbon fiber mountain bikes are a dangerous development.
Modern mountain bikes live in this weird consumer space. They are designed to stand up to incredible stresses while remaining light and agile. But they're increasingly purchased by people who don't really need high performance gear, they just like the idea of owning "the best" stuff.
I imagine the same thing is true with pickup trucks. What once was utilitarian becomes a vanity object. Now it's harder for people who genuinely need the performance.
The bike space is full of people screeching about how you'll catastrophically break stuff if you use your bike for all its worth, just like the vehicle space is.
And "the best" for those people is definitely not a mountain bike. But I'm sure it's the same factor as for SUVs, it looks cool and is big and scary. Pretty much everyone would be better off with a citybike and a decent geartrain + wheels
Horses for courses. The sort of person riding a high end mountain bike is not using it to buy groceries in the city.