Originally Posted by
noodle soup
I understand your skepticism, but you should also understand that reverse engineering costs far less than R&D, and that marketing/team sponsorship is a huge expense.
Light Bicycle has been around the block a few times(since about 2010), and there are very few negative reviews/forum posts about the company, or their products. The one post that has been mentioned, was strange in many ways.
https://www.singletracks.com/blog/mt...er-rim-review/
I'd love to hear what @
Bob Dopolina has to say about them.
If the LB wheels were exactly as aero/light/wide as the mainstream competition I’d have no problem buying that. But they didn’t just reverse engineer their competitors... they seemingly out-engineered them by making something more aero/light/wide... again, at a fraction of the cost. That’s what concerns me. If it were as easy as just reverse engineering, at least a couple western companies would have come up with something to match them by now.
What am I missing here?