Before you go off upgrading your road bike...

[T4tomo]

where a min/max range is specified. This is a Specialized Roubaix Pro tubed tyre with a pressure range of 85-95 psi specified

This is a Schwalbe Pro One Tubeless Easy with a pressure range of 60-95psi specified...

Recommendations I think rather than min / max. 10psi is a tiny range for example on the Roubaix Pro.

 

[matticus]

My bingo card is filling up nicely. Just sayin' ...

 

[jowwy]

I will have to at some point but I'm putting it as long as possible

I put it off for a while after a work colleague told me to get one for the 30mile round trip commute and he said i wouldnt regret it…..delayed a year and now glad i got them both.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Change is driven by the young and the newcomers to the sport, a bunch of old coffin dodgers bleating "Why are you doing it like that, do it like this it's how we've always done it" gets no more than muffled giggles and rolled eyes.

It was the same when I started in the sixties and has continued with every new innovation since. The Luddites were left to dribble into their drinks while the world moved on, and thank God it did because the bikes of today are far superior to those of twenty years ago, never mind fifty.

Some innovations are absolutely game changing.

Lighting on bikes is infinitely superior to what it was with LEDs and Li batteries.

To the road cyclist, I don't think there's been another innovation which has made today's bikes "far superior" in the last 20 years.

I bought a 10 speed compact double aluminium road bike about 20 years ago. There's really no substantial difference to modern bikes. Purely marginal and incremental.

MTBs moreso, perhaps.

Ebikes, certainly.

 

[icowden]

• oversized jockey wheels - looked these up. If you are a top end super dooper speedy racer the evidence is that they make a difference
• integrated cockpits - my bike has one, I didn't choose it for that, but you tend to go with what the bike has surely?
• top end group set - agreed, just go with what the bike has unless you are a super-dooper speedy racer
• road tubeless - agreed, they seem to be more hassle than they are worth
• ceramic bearings -looked these up. If you are a top end super dooper speedy racer the evidence is that they make a difference
• road disc brakes - again, my bike came with disc brakes, it wasn't a "choice".

Here's my hot take!! Some things are aimed at the sort of people that want to lose 10 grams from the weight of the bike rather than 2kg from the stomach of the bloke / lady on the bike (I am this latter category).

 

[Deleted member 26715]

What's an integrated cockpit?

Is it a screen & wipers, surely that will slow you down into a headwind?

 

[alex_cycles]

What's an integrated cockpit?

Is it a screen & wipers, surely that will slow you down into a headwind?

You need a joystick too, to control the ailerons

 

[Deleted member 26715]

You need a joystick too, to control the ailerons

Seriously though WTF is a cockpit on a bike?

 

[SpokeyDokey]

An interesting (albeit a year old) read whichever braking camp you are in:

https://www.rouleur.cc/blogs/the-rouleur-journal/the-inevitability-of-disc-brakes

 

[T4tomo]

Seriously though WTF is a cockpit on a bike?

handlebars and stem is one piece and all the cables run thru it into the frame. click on the link in post #1 to see a picture.
home mechanic's nightmare

 

[alex_cycles]

Seriously though WTF is a cockpit on a bike?

I've seen it referred to on GCN. I believe it's a poncy marketing term for the area where the stem and bars meet, which on 'spensive bikes is usually carbon, integrated (cables through it) and super duper aero

 

[FishFright]

I put it off for a while after a work colleague told me to get one for the 30mile round trip commute and he said i wouldnt regret it…..delayed a year and now glad i got them both.

Health reasons will be why I have to , or maybe if I have to do a longer commute.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Or clever marketeers who convince the naive young that they need to prove themselves by doing it a different way although the existing way is the best & they will eventually realise that.

That's what we were being told fifty years ago. We'd still be on steel frames, five speed blocks and down tube friction shifters if we'd taken notice.

 

[Jameshow]

Some innovations are absolutely game changing.

Lighting on bikes is infinitely superior to what it was with LEDs and Li batteries.

To the road cyclist, I don't think there's been another innovation which has made today's bikes "far superior" in the last 20 years.

I bought a 10 speed compact double aluminium road bike about 20 years ago. There's really no substantial difference to modern bikes. Purely marginal and incremental.

MTBs moreso, perhaps.

Ebikes, certainly.

Sti were revolutionary, as are carbon frames, not to mention factory wheels and di2....

 

[Ming the Merciless]

…get a recumbent