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Longtime NE Patriots coach Bill Belichick is a polarizing figure in American sports, but there's this quote he said that I love and can't get out of my head, "Coaches don't win games. Only the players on the field can win games. Coaches can lose games, though." That's what I think about bikes in competition. Bikes can't win races, but they can lose races. As such, my goal in setting up a bike is that it doesn't lose me the race, i.e. mechanical drag or inefficiency, mechanical failure, flat tires, inconsistent or unpredictable performance, major unpleasant tradeoffs, etc. Basically if...

I will forever remember the day when Cascade Components called me "sensible." I do wonder how much of the current trend of HBOs in shocks is affecting this whole discussion as well. It seems to me like we're moving more towards position sensitive damping in general, which would probably facilitate a longer stroke shock as well. I've always been under the impression that the longer the shock stroke, the more "tune-ability" you could muster out of it due to the length of fluid displacement. But I guess you could probably achieve the same thing with a short stubby shock with...