• Everyone has a list

    From AMuzi@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 30 13:44:41 2024
    https://www.renehersecycles.com/innovations-of-the-last-25-years/

    One man's opinion, that.

    I did a double take on wool clothing (some of my own is very
    old indeed). Why is this fabric on this list? Mrs
    Holdsworth was sewing wool shorts for her sons a hundred
    years ago and made a very good business of it!
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  • From Roger Merriman@21:1/5 to AMuzi on Tue Dec 31 00:09:40 2024
    AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
    https://www.renehersecycles.com/innovations-of-the-last-25-years/

    One man's opinion, that.

    I did a double take on wool clothing (some of my own is very
    old indeed). Why is this fabric on this list? Mrs
    Holdsworth was sewing wool shorts for her sons a hundred
    years ago and made a very good business of it!

    Does seem a slightly curious list as ever, while as ever by bikes he means
    road bikes, though that’s not limited to him.

    I’d also not say innovation for disks or wide tires, as certainly disks
    that was just a matter of time. Ie they were being used on MTB and CX bikes existing which is how certainly in uk it started ie CX bikes such as the Specialised Tricross which was used for fast comfortable commuters and
    hacking around the woods, and where sold to be used like that, ie wider
    range of gears bottle cages and a less sharp geometry and so on.

    Wool even if merino not sure I’d say that’s a game changer, more of meh.

    I think as ever it’s fairly light on technical more on his opinions.

    Roger Merriman

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  • From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to AMuzi on Mon Dec 30 22:17:02 2024
    On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:44:41 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

    https://www.renehersecycles.com/innovations-of-the-last-25-years/

    Bikepacking? I *stopped* camping out twenty-five years ago.

    (Because we moved away from the hilltowns I used to ride up into.)



    Wool clothing? The quarter century he is talking about is when wool
    clothing stopped being available at every bike shop.

    (Fiber note: merino is the *finest* wool, not the best wool. Fine
    wool is for underwear and baby clothes, not for sportswear.)


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  • From Zen Cycle@21:1/5 to Joy Beeson on Tue Dec 31 09:55:23 2024
    On 12/30/2024 10:17 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:
    On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:44:41 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

    https://www.renehersecycles.com/innovations-of-the-last-25-years/

    Bikepacking? I *stopped* camping out twenty-five years ago.

    (Because we moved away from the hilltowns I used to ride up into.)

    I caught that too - bike packing is an innovation of the last 25 years?




    Wool clothing? The quarter century he is talking about is when wool
    clothing stopped being available at every bike shop.

    (Fiber note: merino is the *finest* wool, not the best wool. Fine
    wool is for underwear and baby clothes, not for sportswear.)




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