Originally Posted by
RobertPaulson
I mean its a nuanced thing, they do not feel like noodles. I could only really feel the difference on back to back efforts with a very stiff set-up, it probably didn't help that the worx were on a 150mm stem either but did chime with others saying (wrt to match sprints/f200/man 1 starts type riding etc) they flex, on the road you are either not going to notice or be breaking something expensive on your road bike doing an effort where you maybe do.
Yeah, you are subject taco-ing a chainring if you try to get a road bike's stem or bars to flex. Hell, I've taco-ed a road chainring just climbing a hill in my neighborhood.
I've seen people use their road bikes for standing start practice and I'm wincing every effort hoping that they don't eat it and lose some teeth.