It’s raining right now, however I rode anyway, since not solely do I’ve a superbly good rain bike…
…however due to Vulpine I even have a wonderful rain jacket:
Right here’s what it appears like on an getting older moist schlub:
Positive, there are cheaper methods to remain dry, however that is properly reduce and fairly comfy, and this previous September I even donned it earlier than descending an enormous mountain:
That story is at present with a professional publication and as quickly as they determine to legitimately publish it I’ll let you understand.
Talking of Vulpine, I’ve additionally been getting good use out of this insulated using shirt:
It’s heat, it’s comfortable, and it affords you loads of mobility while you’re pretending to inflate your tire whereas being pressured to put on a helmet:
I additionally nonetheless put on their denims just about daily, on the bike and off, they usually’ve been fairly sturdy whereas providing sweatpant-like consolation. Actually you’d be laborious pressed to search out somebody with higher bike commuting apparel than me–and but I’ve nowhere to commute to, go determine.
Transferring on, in non-haberdashery information, keep in mind how again in 2016 Zipp/SRAM/and so on. got here out with a wheel formed like a whale fin?
Nicely I simply noticed on the VeloNews that they’re suing another firm for copying it:
Although if anyone is gonna sue anyone shouldn’t or not it’s the whales suing SRAM?
Both means, you’ve bought to understand the advertising and marketing savvy of “inventor” Dimitrios Katsanis:
Who primarily based the whole gimmick idea on some random whale paper from 1995:
The patents describe a rim or spokes with an “undulating configuration” that’s mentioned to cut back aerodynamic drag, particularly in crosswinds. Among the many publications cited within the patents is “Hydrodynamic Design of the Humpback Whale Flipper,” printed within the Journal of Morphology in 1995.
From what I can inform, Katsanis does have a protracted and achieved profession each in and past biking, however I’m nonetheless prepared to wager that on this specific occasion he thought the phrase “morphology” was cool and labored backwards from there.
All that apart although, if Princeton is arguing that their wheel is any completely different from SRAM’s, then their case has extra holes than a whale’s baleen:
However possibly they’re arguing one thing else, and in that case I can’t be bothered to search out out what, as a result of I’ve no real interest in gimmicky wheels past laughing at them and so I’ve formally stopped caring as of the tip of this sentence.
I’m nonetheless interested by aquatic mammals, although:
That fin would make a incredible rim.
Lastly, given my tribulations over the flawed design of the first-generation C-Report rear derailleur, it’s good to know I can all the time improve to the revised model:
At that value clearly I ordered two of them.
