Your thoughts on cycling trends and bicycle designs .....

[GrumpyGregry]

Dynamo hubs to make an industry-wide comeback in all sectors to power lights and all sorts of USB devices with smart battery storage in the frame.

Nope. Not for the only ride in daylight in fake races sportive brigade they won't.

That said, my next new wheel will be dynohub and disc....

 

[Archie_tect]

Nope. Not for the only ride in daylight in fake races sportive brigade they won't.

That said, my next new wheel will be dynohub and disc....

That's a niche, not a sector.... [cough]

 

[snorri]

Thoughts on cycling trends....essential maintenance effort seems to be increasing, not decreasing.
The amount of time and effort required to maintain a bicycle is well out of proportion to that required to keep a car going over similar mileages. Few would argue that a bicycle is a more complex piece of engineering than a car, so why do they need so much care and attention?
When manufacturers sort that one out cycling can flourish.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Thoughts on cycling trends....essential maintenance effort seems to be increasing, not decreasing.
The amount of time and effort required to maintain a bicycle is well out of proportion to that required to keep a car going over similar mileages. Few would argue that a bicycle is a more complex piece of engineering than a car, so why do they need so much care and attention?
When manufacturers sort that one out cycling can flourish.

Serious cyclist's bikes are often racehorses? Highly strung. Temperamental. Unreliable. Prone to failure in a large number of ways.

A consequence of the value we place on lightness I fear.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

That's a niche, not a sector.... [cough]

MAMILism is a sector surely?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Anyway I've decided this years birthday present will be a place on one of those courses where you build your own frame.

to be honest I'm so out of condition I'd rather work on bikes than ride 'em.

 

[Archie_tect]

If you need some wood GG, we've got a load of 4"x2" you can have.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

If you need some wood GG, we've got a load of 4"x2" you can have.

I had a go on a wooden bike last year in Brussels. It broke.

 

[Archie_tect]

Wooden go?

 

[palinurus]

Self-riding bike. You still pedal, so you get a workout and can still annoy your colleagues by eating at your desk all day, but the bike does the steering so you can play games on your phone and vape while riding to work.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Wooden go?

Bottom Bracket thought it was a hinge.

 

[Cuchilo]

Glue bikes will be the future . They have been adding fibres to glue for far too long .

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

What I'd like to see is the return of shiny metallic and flamboyant paint. Bike frames these days are so dull. I presume its the fault of carbon, I presume it can't take the old style classic paint finishes.

 

[RecordAceFromNew]

The only reliable trend I can detect, whether it is the frame or components, is that they will break or wear out much more easily and quickly...

 

[Cuchilo]

The only reliable trend I can detect, whether it is the frame or components, is that they will break or wear out much more easily and quickly...

That seems to be they way with everything now . Design it so it wears out quick and then you buy new parts or a new product