Lovacott
Über Member
Nobody is going to be an expert on your reasons for riding a bike and the exact roads you ride on.
My old steel MTB would be useless in the TDF but a £50,000 TDF road bike wouldn't last five minutes on my commute.
Easy to get confused by expert cyclists.
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My old steel MTB would be useless in the TDF but a £50,000 TDF road bike wouldn't last five minutes on my commute.
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gavroche
Getting old but not past it
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I have never heard of a £50000 TdF bike.
Lovacott
Über Member
Quite right, back-pedal brakes are the way to go.All this talk about rim brakes, 19 century that way ———>
Punkawallah
Über Member
‘An expert is someone who knows more & more about less & less.’
If their speciality is ‘winning’, they may be right when they say ‘you must spend x’. They are useful for questions on specifics, but not so much on general questions. For that, get as many opinions as you can, and add salt to taste.
If their speciality is ‘winning’, they may be right when they say ‘you must spend x’. They are useful for questions on specifics, but not so much on general questions. For that, get as many opinions as you can, and add salt to taste.
Punkawallah
Über Member
Yup. The guy on the towpath does not have to win a Tour, so the effusive praise for the ‘superbike’ by the expert tells him nothing he needs to know - unless he seriously ups his game :-)
Obviously the assumption that ‘all experts are stupid’ would be an error, but our towpath guy is entitled to an opinion, and if it gets him through the day then it would be churlish to deny him it.
Don’t know anything about ‘hack journos’, but have long thought these magazines should come with a ‘salt & shake’ blue packet. At least have reviews of the same product from two different people.
I’d read an article with reviews of a superbike by our towpath guy, and of his hack by the expert :-)
Obviously the assumption that ‘all experts are stupid’ would be an error, but our towpath guy is entitled to an opinion, and if it gets him through the day then it would be churlish to deny him it.
Don’t know anything about ‘hack journos’, but have long thought these magazines should come with a ‘salt & shake’ blue packet. At least have reviews of the same product from two different people.
I’d read an article with reviews of a superbike by our towpath guy, and of his hack by the expert :-)
teeonethousand
Well-Known Member
I find it’s the same with all things....strangers opinions are worthless against your own preferences and direct experience. Cost does not equal value when value is whatever suits just you.
