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Like a child on Christmas morning, I awake each day expecting to find something exciting from Interbike. However, like a Jewish child on Christmas morning, I awake saddened to find nothing.

Crabonification is bicycle equivalent of osteoporosis, in that it simply involves everything getting less dense and more brittle over time. With road cycling having reached near-total crabonification years ago, it's only natural that the frame-wasting disease is now afflicting cyclocross.

Certainly, I acknowledge this is necessary for cycling's growth, since when the cyclocross-curious roadie asks the inevitable question, "Is there carbon I can buy?," the answer must be "Yes!" Alas, despite the visibility of the urban cycling trend, it's still roadies and triathletes who are willing to spend the most money, and in order to convince them that things like cyclocross bikes are essential additions to their "stables" it's crucial to make them available in crabon form. In this sense, crabon legitimizes a bicycle in the same way Snell or ANSI legitimizes a helmet, or UL legitimizes an appliance, or a set of knuckle tattoos legitimizes a hipster.

Det koennte jetzt ja nicht besser gepasst haben.

Und es geht gerade so weiter:

"Sanyo's "dropping" an electric bike in the US too. I believe the last Sanyo product I used came with a dual cassette, so I wonder if this bicycle also features auto reverse."

"Recently, I was checking out Lance Armstrong's Twitter (checking out Lance Armstrong's Twitter is something most cyclists do whether they admit it or not--kind of like sniffing their own chamois)."