Originally Posted by
Campag4life
The evidence is in the bikes. All top tier races bikes from all the leading bike mfr's are brick $h!thouse stiff. That's a fact. They could make them soft. They could make them medium. They make them brick $h!thouse stiff. After all the years Cervelo has been making world class race bikes, they made the new R-series 13% stiffer in downtube and 8% stiffer in BB. After all these years, they believe today, stiffer is faster.
The debate is whether manufacturers are making bikes stiffer because that makes them faster or because it is a marketing device to increase sales. Nothing you've written provides evidence one way or the other.