On 5/4/07, David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 4, 2007, at 3:09 AM, frank theriault wrote: > > > http://gmapuploader.com/iframe.php?mapId=PXPVwvf04K > > > > Now ~that's~ a freaking bike... > > Excuse me, I need to change my trousers. That bike is pornography. > What ratio are you running on it?
49 tooth chainring, 17 tooth cog. That puts it in the mid-70's gear-inches, which is a medium gear for a road bike. If you get a nice spin going, you can cruise at about 40km/h, if you go nuts you can do 50 km/h (my few tries at a 200 metre flying sprint I was in the high 13's, which worked out to about 50 km/h), yet it's a small enough gear to climb pretty much hill that downtown Toronto can throw at me. > > Now, enough of these pansy road bikes. > http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/enduro.jpg Peh! Gears. Brakes. Knobbie tires... > I just got her back from a servicing and I plan to ride her > extensively during the weekend (no Mark!ing this sentence out of > context!). Well, I've never done any off-roading. When I see a bike like that, I tell myself that I really should give it a try sometime. Looks like fun!! Seriously, lovely (if industrial looking) bike! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
