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Does lighter still matter on carbon frame as people stick in carbon seat post anyway if they're into serious racing?
Stiffer...hrm. That's another one for the old people corner.
Yes smaller frames are stronger you can carry more load on short top tube tourers compared to the same frame height model with a longer top tube due to increased frame stiffness. This isn't load carrying though.
Well if Rob English had done research to back it up fair play. The Koga kimera had lots of research put into it where stiffness was measured.
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The Koga kimera had lots of
researchcarbon put into it where stiffness was measured.The Kimera is a 2.4kg carbon fibre frameset. When you throw that much material at the problem, you'd have your work cut out not to make it as stiff as a board.
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Goes to bother of putting it in the 'right' gear for a photoshoot but doesn't bother about valve or crank position and shoots it with too wide a lens.
Jesus. Wept.
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The Kimera is a 2.4kg carbon fibre frameset. When you throw that much material at the problem, you'd have your work cut out not to make it as stiff as a board.
Ah. Yeah for 2005 that may have been good, these days not so.
Care to enlighten me on the mega compact MTB style road frames these days? Is it as simply as "small triangle == stiffer" so let's make the TTs as low as we possibly can?
Why not make the seat stays mega low at all times?
Is it truly research or just fashion?
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Yeah for 2005 that may have been good, these days not so.
It's still fine for 2015. Unless the UCI lower the weight limit for track bikes from the current 6.8kg, framesets over 2kg won't be an issue.
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"I'll just like put my name all over her bike crotch AND BE DONE WITH IT!"
this bike is even annoying when you scoll down the screen.
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Copyright: J Hoogerland.
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I love it, I imagine the owner to say...
"yeah I fitted sram red because of the zero loss, it's all about the performance when it comes to racing bike"
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"yeah I fitted sram red because of the Exact Actuation, it's all about the resistance to ghost shifts when it comes to folding bike"
Seems reasonable.
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That's the only thing I like about it - very Holi
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^Exactly that is what Rob English says about them.
Most of his bikes do seem to be about function over form, which is why so many end up here. But the ones which manage to combine the two, like the BRP Machine and his own TT bike, are awesome.