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I am not sure this is true - I actually prefer a heavier bike for general use. If I was racing up hills or still doing cyclocross then light as possible would be best (and of course also me being light as possible being the biggest factor). I have ridden a lot of bikes and the ones that "feel" the best have a moderately "heavy" frame designed to be fairly stiff but not crazy stiff (heavy meaning at most the light end…
I'm not that old, or have a super long history with cycling. But out of the handful of bikes I've ridden, I def prefer double-butted steel (over straight-gauge Hi-Ten, straight-gauge 4130, 90's aluminum, modern aluminum, modern steel gravel bikes) whether I'm going all-out, or cruisin. And even between 2 double-butted steel frames from different tubing manufacturers made for the same use-case more or less, they've fe…
Re: Aerodynamics of Gravel Bikes
#211You would probably love late 1980s high end touring bikes then - they are basically the best of the best of steel