Additional to yesterday’s publish about aero bikes and yaw and scranial generators, Stromm Cycles CMO Dave Koesel was form sufficient to pop into the feedback and remind me we’ve “met” (digitally) earlier than, method again within the 12 months Two Thousand and Aught Niner:
Then as now, bike firms had been unveiling choices of unprecedented lightness and/or aerodynamicicity (is {that a} phrase?), and certainly the day earlier than the above publish I’d apparently taken an in-depth take a look at a pair of movies from Guru:
If I’m getting this proper, which I is probably not, Guru went bankrupt again in 2016 and HIA Velo purchased their belongings or no matter:
HIA Velo is (or no less than was) the mother or father firm of Allied Cycle Works:
As I perceive it, Allied can be partly owned by the Walton household, and distinguish themselves by making their bicycles domestically, although oddly they appear to be shifting manufacturing abroad simply in time for tariff mania:
None of that is actually related to something, aside from underscoring that since 2009 total bike firms have been born and died and born once more, and right here I’m 16 years later cranking out precisely the identical crap.
I don’t know if I ought to be proud or depressed.
As for why I interviewed Dave Koesel, I believe it was as a result of he was at Felt on the time and I used to make enjoyable of their “How Do You Do, Fellow Children?” fixie providing, the Felt Curbside:
To the very best of my recollection, which isn’t excellent, Koesel took subject with this, so I figured it will be enlightening to get some perception from him on how bikes come to be quite than hold lazily making the identical dumb high tube pad jokes.
Anyway, I had no thought he was concerned with Stromm, and it’s oddly comforting that right here we’re nonetheless punching the clock in spite of everything these years:
As for Stromm’s claims that their new highway bike creates a transient aero crotchal vortex and makes use of it to supply ahead thrust, I’m not certified to remark:
Nevertheless, a reader has posed a follow-up query to Dave Koessel and I stay up for his reply.
I may affirm that each one that discuss of crotchal vortices impressed me to go out on the Y-Foil yesterday:
I don’t know if the shortage of a seat tube creates a tiny perineal twister that acts like a tailwind, however my journey took me via the center of Manhattan the place the streets are riddled with building plates and I completely used the Rock Shox Ruby fork:
Only a flick of the change and it’s as if the streets have been magically resurfaced:
Actually, with ambient temperatures getting near 70 American Freedom Levels™ it felt like possibly the fork was even a bit squishier than normal, although I may have been imagining it:
One place the place the road actually was repaved was Central Park, and I noticed proof that maybe we’re on the cusp of a barefoot biking craze:
I hope he no less than took the pins out of these pedals:
Although it’s doable he’s coaching to stroll on nails:
They are saying that God by no means closes a door with out opening a window. In the meantime, the New York Metropolis Division of Transportation takes precisely the other method. After what seems like an eternity the Hudson River Greenway between W. one centesimal Road and W. one hundred and twenty fifth Road is lastly open…
…however now the part between W. 181st Road and Dyckman Road is closed:
The climate was so good I used to be tempted to go over to New Jersey and take a 30-mile detour, however I made a decision towards it:
Perhaps subsequent time.
