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[3narf]

So I dropped my daughter off at gymnastics last night and went to the pub; there were a couple of articles in Cyclist November issue that got me thinking.

1) 3D printed titanium jockey wheels at £700 a pair. It seems to me two types of people will buy these: professional teams, and self-gratification artists. Reading through all the PR gimmickry and after printing they still need further processes! Isn't it true, CeramicSpeed, that the whole point of 3D printing them is that you can say you did, and attract more self-gratification artists?

2) Electronic gear systems are going to shift gear for us when they think we need to change ratios. Can anybody think of anything worse? Not so easy to dismiss as the above, because I'm sure it will happen and eventually trickle down. I feel about 100 years old.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

So I dropped my daughter off at gymnastics last night and went to the pub; there were a couple of articles in Cyclist November issue that got me thinking.

1) 3D printed titanium jockey wheels at £700 a pair. It seems to me two types of people will buy these: professional teams, and self-gratification artists. Reading through all the PR gimmickry and after printing they still need further processes! Isn't it true, CeramicSpeed, that the whole point of 3D printing them is that you can say you did, and attract more self-gratification artists?

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There's your problem right there.

Cycling magazines are the cradle of bullshit.

I'm off to 3D print myself a beer.

 

[Mugshot]

So, just to clarify, if someone has money and spends said money on something which they want, they're a self-gratification artist?

 

[Dogtrousers]

There seem to be a lot of threads lately in which people express their fury at the existence of things that they cannot afford, but don't actually want.

Chill out. Ordinary jockey wheels last for ages.

Now titanium 3d printed jockey shorts are quite another matter. Boy, do they make me angry.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Do they nip your sack?

Genius!

 

[User482]

2) Electronic gear systems are going to shift gear for us when they think we need to change ratios. Can anybody think of anything worse? .

I for one am struggling to think of anything.

 

[Grant Fondo]

So I dropped my daughter off at gymnastics last night and went to the pub; there were a couple of articles in Cyclist November issue that got me thinking.

1) 3D printed titanium jockey wheels at £700 a pair. It seems to me two types of people will buy these: professional teams, and self-gratification artists. Reading through all the PR gimmickry and after printing they still need further processes! Isn't it true, CeramicSpeed, that the whole point of 3D printing them is that you can say you did, and attract more self-gratification artists? .

2) Electronic gear systems are going to shift gear for us when they think we need to change ratios. Can anybody think of anything worse? Not so easy to dismiss as the above, because I'm sure it will happen and eventually trickle down. I feel about 100 years old.

is there any way to double up jockey wheels, you know, like the 70's Elf Tyrell F1 car, then I could have four.

 

[3narf]

I for one am struggling to think of anything.

See? I was right

 

[3narf]

So, just to clarify, if someone has money and spends said money on something which they want, they're a self-gratification artist?

Yes, correct!

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Electronic gear systems are going to shift gear for us when they think we need to change ratios. Can anybody think of anything worse?

Yes: brakes connecting to Strava

 

[mythste]

They say you have to vote with your feet, well I'm voting with my lack of disposable income.

Have that, £700 jockey wheels.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

*mod* now its just about cycling components again. Let's keep it that way.

Other issues are for other threads and not the general cycling board.

It's not big or clever to try to subvert the swear filter either.

 

[Ihatehills]

Err, I kinda like the sound of gears that automatically change to match your chosen cadence. Does that make me weird?

 

[Tim Hall]

Err, I kinda like the sound of gears that automatically change to match your chosen cadence. Does that make me weird?

I've got a cadence that matches my gear*, if that helps.


*On my fixer.

 

[Drago]

My cadence might change depending upon the effort I'm having to make to maintain it.