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I can't believe people like these keep trying to fix something that's not broken (bike tires) with this space-age nonsense talk. Preying on the gullible is what they're doing.

$500 USD for two of these tires.

What do you all think?

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[–] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Counterpoint, even if they are "better" pros and more importantly the UCI might not adopt them in any way quickly.

Pro tour roadies only adopted disc brakes a couple of years ago. The peloton is very conservative deviating from what is known to work