These claims may or may not be accurate, hard to say, you decide! But that Gus is designed for really-big tires run at low pressure and I suspect your bike came with them. They will slow down faster - go fast shorter? - while coasting than thinner tires at higher pressure. True fact.
On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 3:46:39 PM UTC-8 Mark Roland wrote: > On Mo > *nday, December 7, 2020 at 1:13:25 PM UTC-5 RDS wrote:* > *C I recently purchased a Gus and it noticeably does not coast as far as > other bikes that I've had. * > > The Gus is a Hillibike and Hillibikes coast between 1.4% and 3.3% less. > This is with a rider wearing no clothes and regular street shoes, with a > temperature between 0 and 40 degrees Celcius. > > On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 1:13:25 PM UTC-5 RDS wrote: > >> C I recently purchased a Gus and it noticeably does not coast as far as >> other bikes that I've had. Compass tires helped some .. just wondering if >> it was related to long wheel base bikes or not .. so, just curious if you >> noticed a difference in how far you coast b/t the Clem and Platypus? > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/3d04d7b1-821e-4f1f-9f58-849d1dbf9fcfn%40googlegroups.com.
