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I was talking more about London road surfaces, in the same was as you wouldn't expect a high end race tire to necessarily last long commuting because that wasn't what it was designed to do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
branwen-
a high end race tyre would just wear out quickly. His frame terminally failed in an identical way a few times in a row, it's a design flaw.
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that is nonsense. the things get ridden over giant fucking paving stones at roubaix and flanders, and the tests they put those frames through should ensure that you can ride them on a basically endless array of poor surfaces without failure.
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zmjones_
He could have been doing laps of Swains on it but it's a high end track bike, it should be able to take 2000 watt sprints every day and keep going, and there's no way Ho is doing 2000 watts.