On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 5:05:48 AM UTC-7, Mark in Beacon wrote: > > > Jeremy wrote: > *I know from experience that my wife and I can easily pedal the Clem > L-type hard enough to cause problematic frame flex. The Cheviot should be > stiffer, and I think that would help a lot.* > > I am duly impressed! The Clem brochure mentions that, under a full load, > the 59 Ls will experience a bit of wag when stomping out of saddle. As > another data point to your observations, I have a 52 Clementine, and don't > have any significant flex to report, problematic or otherwise. While my > Clementine's design and accoutrements encourages exploring the gentle side > of its nature and generally keeps my inner sprinter at bay, I can kick it > pretty good, and I've honked it up some gradual grades, and also motored > the flats on occasion, with no discernible flex. (On the Bob list, flex is > good!) >
We noticed it on my wife's 52cm Clementine when she reported a strange sound when she pushed on the NDS pedal (seated, not standing). It turned out to be front derailleur trim - the frame was flexing enough to cause the chain to scrape the front derailleur cage. A little trim adjustment made it go away, but it was definitely attributable to frame flex. Given that the existing chainring setup of 24/38 is already rather low for her (she likes to mash) and that moving to a larger chainring would result in more pressure being applied to the frame, I'm a bit tempted to switch her over to 1x8 with a 42t, where the flex won't cause any chain rub problems. She's unlikely to ever hill climb to the point where she needs the small chainring, seems to me, and I love my 1x8 Clem gearing. /Jeremy -- 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.
