Originally Posted by
davester
The urgency generally doesn't appear until you're in the process of being catapulted headfirst into the asphalt.
Ummm, yeah. If and when that happens I'll be wearing a perfectly functional Garneau X-Lite Pro. Maybe you missed that part.
Originally Posted by
Drillium Dude
You must mean that
gaspleen or whatever it is; I remember the last time I fell for a "will change everything" claim was in the run-up to the introduction of the Segway scooter. Never again will I believe any kind of hype
DD
Every once in a while they still get me. I recently went in for that on the Nitto Noodle, going so far as to replace a stem with subtle aesthetics I absolutely
loved with a Pearl in 26.0 to accommodate the new bars. Supremely anticlimactic.
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