My habit is to pedal all my bikes according to the one with the least clearance. You're never going to train your brain to 'remember' which bike you're on.
Joe Bernard Vallejo, CA. On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 10:44:52 PM UTC-7, IanA wrote: > Well, winter has finally passed and the road grit has mostly been swept > away, so the LongLow came out of storage (the livingroom - where else?) and > I was enjoying whipping along at speeds I'd all but forgotten about on my > 80's mountain bike that continues reliably in all conditions, but is dogged > about it. The problem is that the mountain bike has a high bottom bracket > and will not pedal strike even when pedaling during tight lean through turn. > > First day out on the LL this year and I hit speeds of 55km/h (downhill), > but even on the flats the computer told me 40 km/h once or twice. Such > fun. Sadly, at quite low speed thankfully, I turned sharply, pedaling > through grounding my pedal and stalling the bike. The pannier saved the > bike from scratches and I was unscathed. A little rubber shaved off the > bar end shifter. > > It used to be my habit to coast through hard turns with the pedal in the > 12 o clock position on the lean side. I'm concerned that I've been > retrained by my mountain bike. I'm worried that I'll forget one time too > many. Does this happen to anyone else? If so, does the body remember when > the mind is absent? The LL has such a low bb that if one forgets pedal > strike is to be expected. > > Ian A/the unfrozen north. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
