I've not made any rigorous measurements, but casual measurements that don't isolate all non-riding time pauses, as stoplights, stops to adjust a shoe or consult a phone, or weed out all the pre-ride shuffling and preparation after I set Cycle meeter in motion, but don't include any very large pauses like 20 minutes in a store, seem to back up my seat-of-pants impression that ss is not itself a cause of large speed differences.
I've recently ridden my 1999 Joe Starck light (18 lb) gofast 76" gear fixie shod with ineffably nice Elk Pass tires and yes, it does indeed seem particularly fast, faster than my 2020 Matthews 2:1 build along same lines but ~8 lb heavier, Naches Pass Regular instead of EP ELs, and with AM hub epicyclic and SON 20R dynohub powering Edeluxe1 and 2 small tail lights. It *feels* faster, as in ease of maintaining a cadence in a given gear in given terrain. *BUT!* Riding my 2015 Matthews 1:1 "road bike for dirt" with 2X10 drivetrain and 700C X 61 mm Big One extra lights: nope, this bike *feels* just as fast as the 1999 Joe, and such times I've recorded on Cyclemeter indicate that it's not slower in average speed. This proves nothing at all, but it might indicate that there are causes of speed differentials amongst which the slightly lower friction of a ss drivetrain simply disappears. Now, as to *handling,* there's not question which is "better." On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 8:28 AM Joel Levin <joelmle...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd venture that the geared vs. singlespeed difference is playing a major > role. > > I'm always much faster on singlespeeds when the route involves climbing. > -- 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/CALuTfgvedwwagN5PBFXUVYYmf7rjJUVXRe3YKbLFO1%2B-hHAmeg%40mail.gmail.com.
