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Re:Wooden bikes by cultus on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @10:15AM (#18503263)
Oh for sure. Indexed shifting, better alloys, for example.

There have been some major innovations, but most of what has come out in the last 10 years in road bikes hasn't been great. Lots of new BB standards that all creak, thinner chains, too few spokes, etc.

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Re:Wooden bikes by gameswithgo on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @10:38AM (#18503443)
There are certain spoke counts which have non trivial aerodynamic advantage. But going less than, I think it around 12? has greatly diminishing returns. Zipp had some good data on this years ago.
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