deagle8747

1) Brandon Semenuk (CAN) 2)Jaxson Riddle (USA) 3) Brett Rheeder (CAN)

Upvoting this even though I haven't see the whole video, cause its PB and this was the comment with the more likes and I seemed to agree by the few seconds I saw and I didn't like the bike's colour and I didn't want to miss on jumping on the wagon of the comment with the more likes

I don't know but I could imagine different scenarios: 1. It "breaks" the surface continuum of the downtube. If a mud was deposited on a single surface then it becomes a single big lump hard to get rid of. The small areas hanging at the bottom part of this flappy strip provide less area where a large lump of mud could stick to (also reducing the available surface where the holding forces are acting against) and as such minimizes the overall mud stick up. 2. The mud that actually sticks to the tape will receive more destabilizing forces while riding due to the additional vibrations (due to it's low stiffness). 3. It adds areas of high negative slope where gravity is acting only vertically (no horizontal friction component). 4. Tape might have lower friction and could be potentially pre-sprayed with nano-particles of specific properties in the factory. 5. The placebo effect :)

"... but the flip side is that the rear-suspension is a bit harsh in comparison to what's happening at the front of the bike." Maybe put a fork on the back. Now that would be really strange...

There is a really nice book from Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams called "Inventing the future, Postcapitalism and a World Without Work": In the book the authors go through some of the global trends they see in labour like: the precarity of the developed economies' working class intensifying due to a surplus global labour supply, slum populations growing due to automation of low-skilled service work, transformation of higher eduction into job training hastened in a deperate attempt to increase the supply of high-skilled workers etc... But in a smart move the authors instead of choosing the old reformative option of stopping these changes (which they think is very hard to) they form four minimal demands to suggest a more sustainable economic future and to push the current form of capitalism to a quicker death: 1.(Demand) Full Automation; 2.(Demand) The reduction of the working week; 3.(Demand) The provision on the basic income; 4.(Demand) The diminishment of the work ethic. I am sure to some this may seem like a utopic non-sense, but a big portion of their arguments will fall very easily in a pragmatic analysis of where we are now as a society and how our economies work in a global scale. I believe tbh that there are certain jobs that no-one should do at this point of humanity's history for example laying carbon in a repetitive motion for 12hours/day in a probably hazardous factory only for their kids to be -maybe- in a slighlty better position in the future. If these people could do this for 2-hrs with some help of robots, have a decent salary and then time to spent with their families, our world would be much better! Long comment I know, but it's not an easy issue nor one to tackle with smart humourous phrases. We need to find ways to make these technologies work on our behalf rather than against us.