I've grounded a pedal on the fixed Quickbeam a couple of times, once landing me in the street (funky turn across a speed bump), and more than once a big hop of the rear wheel. I also broke the insides of a fairly rare Fichtel & Sachs Automatic hub that way, and while I've replaced the broken driving ring, I haven't really ridden it since. i have lower--profile VP-001s on the Quickbeam now, and I try to remember "I can coast through this!" on the geared bike. I did that just today, pressing down hard on the outside pedal and leaning hard. I think taking the fun where it comes makes it easier to remember which bike is which.
Philip www.biketinker.com 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.
