>>1684765>Has the bicycle been perfected with this shape?NOT AS SHOWN in that picture.
1. That ultra low handlebar location with the tall seat means the bicyclist rides head down. As shown, the pedals require bike shoes with cleat positions or else upwards power is missing as there are no toe hooks.
2. In addition, the bicycle as shown is inconvenient as locking detent shifters are better than these friction set shifters on the downtube. The front wheel doesn't have quick release which is a horror in the city because you need to lock the two wheels together to the same location. If the front wheel isn't locked, it will be stolen to force the bike owner to leave the scene without the bike. Then once the troublesome owner is gone, the thieves come back to get the rest of the bike to add to the front wheel. This "staging" technique works well at our public libraries which is why so few people ride bicycles to the library even before the pandemic.
3. The wheels (rim + tires) are for open roadways fast riding. Those are terrible for the city where I am. I must have thicker tires with more rubber and belts between my inner tube and the glass-strewn roadway. Ever since the 2020 riots, assholes have been trying to degrade infrastructure. So there's all too much glass on the roadways.
Thicker rubber means wider tires, so those thin racing rims won't work here. You need to understand that bicycles here have to be 100% reliable (no flats) or else I will be walking the bicycle (unpatchable glass slash) with orcs now eying me as a source of their next cash ATM card withdrawal. I don't need that, so anything that risks the bicycle going down is unacceptable.
