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You have it on the bike for road descents where you have to be more aerodynamic? If you want that, I also advise you to drop the gravel bike and get an aero road bike.

Unless you attend races where you want very fast descents, it would be extremely pointless. Please don't speed like this on public roads. It's dangerous and illegal.

Did you develop the dropper post? What a legend!

That's a completely unrelated situation. Mohoric used the dropper post for aerodynamic advantage. It's not used for that in mountain biking. No XC rider will say they're not aero enough in the descents.

Is anything going to be safe from this crypto gold rush? They are consuming every available resource they get their hands on.

@kevinturner12: Agree. Commodity fetishism among cyclists is just rampant.

"Rewind the CAAD by a generation, give it modern tyre clearance, a threaded bottom bracket, mechanical-friendly cable routing, a round seatpost, and most importantly, make it affordable. Right there you have a bike that has real demand, would surely spoil the sales figures of other brands, and equally, it would serve the next generation of lifelong cyclists. " Absolutely spot on. Manufacturers making alloy bikes look like carbon counterparts made them unnecessarily heavy and flexible. I don't want my alloy bike to look aero, I don't care about saving 15 seconds in a 40 km, 50kmh time trial! I want a solid well designed frame and a bike that's cheap to maintain. A good affordable road bike with standard parts are what amateurs need, not some ultra rigid carbon they'll never have the form to push to limits of.

Yes it's a very unpopular opinion that's not being pushed by the biggest media and propaganda apparatus since the beginning of 2010s. You're really a brave soul for repeating what the biggest empire of our time with unparalleled intellectual hegemony says!

Autodesk you say... I hope SRAM doesn't start doing "Groupset as a Service".

Nature is healing.