198: Bike sales jump because of Covid-19, how frame stiffness affects gravel bikes

The Paceline Cycling Podcast · May 14, 2020 · 1h 3m

With the massive increase in bike sales due to shelter in place requirements, there is a lot of curiosity about how that is playing out in terms of kids bike sales, adult bike sales, ebike sales, trail usage and more. Selene answers a reader question about just what sorts of statistics have been compiled and what that tells us about who is actually on the road or trail. "Vertically compliant but torsionally stiff" has become such a bike review cliche that some people no longer give much thought to how or where a bike should be stiff. This winter Patrick began encountering a surprising and odd…