Originally Posted by
embankmentlb
They had to build a new old Merckx because all the old bikes they test keep breaking??
I wonder where they get their old bikes from? I may not be putting out 500 watts for hours at a time but my old bikes hold up just fine.
Something is a bit off here.
Yeah, I'm suspicious too about them "breaking" the older bikes. There's one shot of him in the distance yelling to his friend that he has "a problem" but we don't know what that is. Maybe he had a flat tire or a broken spoke. And then some vague thing about "riding in anger". They don't actually show us what supposedly broke, did they? Maybe I missed it.
If old bikes were prone to breaking, we wouldn't all be riding them. They seemed to be just making an excuse for the need to build their own replica.