So I’ve been seeing a lot in the news lately about new companies designing bikes that “solve all the old problems of the old bike”.  They achieve this by adding extra moving parts, adding new pivot points, enclosing the whole thing in hard candy shell, integrating headsets/stems/handlebars/seats/other and endlessly searching for new materials with which to build their new and improved monoliths of industry. I find it interesting how much energy is being put into this right now.  By no coincidence is this happening during a time when more and more people are riding bikes.  If there’s money in it…