Originally Posted by
tomato coupe
Pretty agitated, apparently.
You know how sometimes there's a constant annoying noise that eventually you only notice when it stops?
Systematic exploitation and the minimisation of human potential gives me tinnitus.
You'd be pretty silly to disagree that the distribution and exercise of power in a society is the most fundamental factor affecting the nature of that society, right?
The development of the road bike occurs within that paradigm. Sure would be nice, not just for the development of road bikes, if we had a system that was actually designed to maximise our potential...
I'll zip it now, except to say that you can ignore politics, but you can't escape its pervasive effects.