For a long time I thought that the biggest change I'd seen since I've been a bike rider was in clothing. New fabrics, better chamois pads, better fit, more sizes. It's 10 times better, and at only 20 times the price. I don't know in what festering mountain all the awful old polyester kit is refusing to rot, and I care not.
But recently I've realised that kit is no longer the biggest change. It's the best road bike tyres. If you can't remember the tyre technology of 15 years ago, you wouldn't be able to imagine it. It was a time of superstition and witchcraft. Of science-defying magic-formulae passed from generation to generation.
