There's a chart here that describes the power required to ride at any given speed for various positions on a bike (aerobars, drops, hoods, tops, and standing): https://ridefar.info/bike/cycling-speed/air-resistance-cyclist/
You can see that the standing position is clearly a lot worse than the others, and that the article claims that the difference between the tops and the drops is about 1kph or 0.6mph. That doesn't sound like a lot, at 15mph 70% your power is going into overcoming air resistance. (https://maa.org/math-values/2018-7-19-devlins-angle-post-1-sf48y-x6edp-l56an/#:~:text=What%20the%20math%20tells%20you,accounting%20for%20the%20other%20half).) I guess what this tells me is that I should try lowering the handlebars on my son's Roadini. -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/f1adfd1e-6a41-4967-a469-b63b052ef5ebn%40googlegroups.com.
