Oh, and I totally agree about the stout wheels thing. I've noticed the same thing on my Quickbeam (lighter weight everywhere, including the wheels) vs. my Long Haul Trucker (stout and heavy), which are otherwise set up very similarly. Other than the gears, of course.
On Monday, February 15, 2016 at 12:29:19 PM UTC-8, Patrick Moore wrote: > > Heavier wheels very definitely contribute to a "momentum" feel. One thing > I miss on my otherwise most excellent 26" fixed gears is that feeling of > "keep on rolling." The (1) light and (2) shorter radius wheels simply don't > carry the momentum that larger and heavier wheels do. > > OTOH, they get up to speed faster, and seem to climb faster. > > I recall a very nice ride through West LA years ago riding an early 60s > Paramount track bike (that had huge clearances and handled like a very nice > road bike) with 40 spoke Campy wheels -- yes, the combination was not OEM. > Those heavy wheels just rolled and rolled. > > After so many years of riding both, I have to say that I like both, and > would in the future choose my wheels with other criteria in mind than > "feel." > > Patrick Moore, about to ride his 75 gi, 559 bsd-wheeled, 370-gram rim'd, > 175-gram tir'd Rivendell gofast in sunny ABQ, NM. > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Joe Bernard <joer...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> 26 x 1.5 Continental slicks, which look comically skinny on this bike. I >> was curious if my tires were a contributor to the momentum effect, so it's >> interesting to hear that you're experiencing the same thing with >> appropriately fat tires. >> >> To expound a little more on the ride, the feeling is like a slight >> tailwind: When it gets wound up to a cruising speed, it feels like it >> doesn't take excess pedal-pressure to maintain that speed. Incidentally, >> this is opposite of the old 26-inch-wheel Bstone XOs I've owned. They spun >> up fast, then kind of hit a wall. It took consistent effort to keep speed >> up, and any backing off would have an immediate slowing effect. I don't >> know what makes the difference between these bikes - maybe 25 years of >> learning and designing - but the CLEM is a fabulous bicycle. >> >> -- >> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > ************************************************************************** > ************** > *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a > circumference on which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities > revolve. *Chuang Tzu > > *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the > world revolves.) *Carthusian motto > > *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart > > *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle > > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
