Stevek76 wrote: ↑29 Sep 2022, 1:07pm
Plenty in the bike industry often obediently parroted by low effort semi sponsored reviews.
Mtb suspension is always simultaneously more small bump compliant, supportive midstroke which rides higher and with progressive bottom out resistance.
The latest groupset always produces sharper and crisper shifts
Tangled Metal wrote: ↑28 Sep 2022, 10:45pm
The phrase digital motor is a made up term, made up, by Dyson to separate their brushless motors from those of power tools, hard drives, etc. A new, special and worth the Dyson premium kind of difference!
The digital is more a reference to the way the speed is controlled rather than brush/brushless (hard drives have always been brushless btw, dust from brushes is not good to have inside them!) but it certainly isn't anything new other than the term. A 'digital' motor is controlled via a constant voltage but rapidly pulsed with the width of the pulses varied.
The bike industry like a lot of others sells products that with a bit of care will last decades and so is to a large extent dependent on convincing you that the product they sold you as " superb " is now obsolete because it doesn't have XY&Z
And to be fair to them something's they have developed are better than what went before that's if you truly have a tangible use for what ever small improvements they offer at usuall y considerable price premium .
There are a long list of technology that I can see no conviable use for, for me, I don't tell others how to spend their money other than laughing behind their back. and it's much to exspensive to fall into " nice to have" or just for ornamental purposes
. If I want an ornament IL buy a vase not a 4 grand gravel racer that I won't ever race on gravel or even take on gravel at 4grand.
I'm not as old school as some on here, I'm rather stuck at about 2010, I have a 2005 mountain bike that's as heavy as a gas cooker, they improved after that