Originally Posted by
Hermes
Look the best way to ride is chainless - clean, efficient and cheap. It seems pretty common in SoCal these days.
I assume the belts - which I see a lot of, and the shafts share the same issue to different degrees. Flex.
The psychological benefit of having a clean bike, ceramic this/that, silk tubulars and waxed clean chain always seems to more than deliver what the Physics suggested. If you are one of those "science only" riders, they might not make you go faster. If you are the type to get hyped up they definitely will.
