> > I can't even ride my bike hands-free. The geometry of the > bike and the > > amount of trail make it practically impossible, at least at a speed > > slow enough for me to feel safe hands-free - it's the complete > > opposite of a track bike. > > Back when I had a road bike (before The Accident of 2007), I was > continually surprised at the huge difference in riding hands-free > between that and my trackbike. The shorter wheelbase, small amount of > trail and vertical geometry of the trackbike make handsfree riding > very comfortable. > > The road bike, OTOH, seemed to "have a mind of its own", and once it > was going in a certain direction, it wanted to keep going that way, > despite how much I leaned (or tried to lean) my body the other way. >
it feels like the proverbial turning of an oil tanker, especially at speed. I'd like to tour the Pyrenees sometime in the next 2-3 years, but I'll need a different bike if I'm not to go shooting straight off the edge of a mountain at the first hairpin on the first downhill. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
