Cycling: Where The Designers Don't Know Either

Cane Creek, hand made in a shed by people who are guessing.  Or something.  Anywho, given the (loose) manufacturing tolerances of plastic frames, aluminium frames, welded steel frames, and suspension fork components, the whole reduced offset thing is probably mostly in your head if you are the average "expert" out there.  Or a manufacturer, apparently.

Double-blind testing would probably not show most anyone's ability to discern between the standard and short offset on a selection of widely available mass-market plastic and aluminum frames on any consistent basis.  Maybe one girl out there would be Princess Pea, but I kinda doubt it.

All this is a mute point, because forks are only going to come in the one (reduced) offset going forward anyway, so whatevs.

EE Brakes Are The Latest Proof That Cyclists Are The Dumbest People

Considering how well modern road bike caliper brakes work--along with how perfectly useful brakes were already in the 80s and 90s even if they didn't have the light touch they do now--and how light they are for the performance you get, the only fucking reason to use anything as brutally ugly and ungainly as these turds is because you are a complete fucking vapid twit with way more money than good taste or sense of shame.  There's nothing to be gained unless you a complete deluded fool.  A toddler locked in a squalid room with only a few chewed Lincoln Logs, rat bones, and a Hefty bag full of trash could make something that looks more properly finished and elegant than that fucking shit show.  The sole reason twits and their ilk buy these things is to show how much disposable income they have and as an accidental signal to all the decent folks left out there that marginal tax rates are way too fucking low.  Heinous.