There’s the unpopular opinion that finally annoyed me 
3 Likes
Mission accomplished.
1 Like
Yeah, I know a lot of factories in Taiwan are still hand making frames, so I dunno why the folks at the handmade festival are using that term to differentiate their stuff?. I know many commercial metal bikes are hand-welding, but these robots are probably really good at welding and could do a better job than I could with the TIG right now. I worked as a brazer making heat exchangers, and I thought about going into framebuilding but I couldn’t handle dealing with picky cyclists all day everyday. I became an ironworker/welder instead. I still ride carbon bikes though, and those are definitely hand made.
2 Likes
Custom frames are like the gluten free diet of bike production.
It’s a fantastic solution to a problem most people don’t have.
10 Likes
I think his video quality is quite good from a scenery capturing and ride perspective, but I do find him kind of hilariously annoying. Seeing him photo bomb an interview with Isabel King (on Delaney’s channel?) was a classic.
Also, “I’m blind in my left eye right now because of a concussion, but that’s OK. I’m used to it - your boy used to do MMA” or whatever is easily the most memorable line on cycling Youtube I’ve heard.
8 Likes
The current recipe thread is why so many people don’t like cyclists; someone makes a joke and every cyclist has to over-analyze it, explain why the OP is wrong and argue their mundane opinion 
24 Likes
Right? I thought it was a pretty good analogy for a problem that’s brought up again and again here and on the podcast and lot of places. But it’s not a perfect model for all of training so we must correct it!
10 Likes
Same reasons restaurants all advertise “Homemade pie.” Words are meaningless 
Ha I was thinking the same thing. The forum is almost becoming painful to visit because it’s just a bunch of arguing about why someone is wrong. The Keegan posts are the same. Nobody can be happy he’s a good bike racer because he’s not “world tour” or from Europe I guess. Can’t we just let the dude be good and dominate how he wants?
10 Likes
Mechanical shifting sucks
Come at me now 
2 Likes
This reminds me of mine: the vast vast majority of people who claim that electronic is “far superior” to mechanical shifting had poorly setup mech setups. 
8 Likes
The need to think about 5+ batteries in preparation for longer rides sucks. 
8 Likes
The only benefit of mechanical is not having to charge batteries every once in a while (hence why I use it on some bikes)…other than that I’ve recently learned that it merely takes a (new) cable not running well into the housing to significantly impact shifting quality apparently…so I’ll stick with my contrarian view on mechanical groups
1 Like
I’ve known more people lose front / rear / all shifting with electronic gearing in the last two years than ever with mechanical shifting (that wasn’t a cable tension tweak to fix).
And in the worst case that a cable snaps, it’s pretty simply to jerry rig the rear derailleur to be stuck in a sensible gear rather than the 11 cog with mechanical.
Battery life is one thing but there seem to be an extra class of technical gremlins with Di2 & AXS. Mainly Di2 cables getting cut when people remove and replace their seatpost on a trip, but also general water ingress seem to be a problem for some.
3 Likes
Mechanical vs. Electronic is the Tubular vs. Clincher of yore.
6 Likes
1 Like
Tubular tyres may not be faster but are much nicer to ride than tubeless as well as lighter and safer.
3 Likes
Can certainly guess his unpopular opinion of electric shifting
Joe
1 Like
It’s a matter of taste.
2 Likes
Partially thanks to him, I switched to Red etap (I was looking for any excuse to switch at that time, really for no good reason).
At any rate, I don’t own any electronic shifting bikes anymore and don’t have any plans for electronic in the future. In fact, I’m trying out single speed next year.
2 Likes