Yeah, you're right Rob. Your internet powers of deduction are effing staggering. Except that you forgot that crucial factor in your equation that helps you solve these problems: Experience.
Being that you have virtually none and a small handful of us here are actually fourwheelers, we've happened to see some stuff you haven't. As a matter of fact, we've seen a lot of stuff. Some of it over and over again. But more importantly our experience is varied and evolving. Some people like Antichrist have fourhweeled for a while but they just do the same stuff repeatedly ad nauseum and they cling desperately to the same conclusions. The rest of us will actually adapt and learn.
That's why contemporary wisdom tells us that a U-joint MIGHT break and a rotoflex WILL shred. Early on a lot of us liked the rotoflex. We argued theoretically about its advantages, particularly for the Disco2.
...But then we experienced reality it in the field and we evolved. We saw that the rotoflex was a giant spinning donut hanging down below the pinion at a low point of contact and every rock, log and ledge imaginable was going to grind it.
Your little Bridges of Madison County jaunts and your out-of-context web wisdom just aren't going to cut it on the trail. It's a disservice to anyone who might actually get out into the good stuff.
If you want to hold a "higher standard for tech" then base it on credibility and understanding, not out-of-context BS.
