"This time we stopped for beer and took them back to our starting point and enjoyed a cold frothy beverage coupled with casual conversation while dodging mosquitoes in the cool evening air. Overall a very pleasant and satisfying time. These scenarios are what makes riding with others enjoyable for me."
Very well put Charlie! Angus On Aug 4, 10:46 pm, charlie <charles_v...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I live in the foothills of Mt. Rainier in Washington State.....no > matter where I go I have steep hills, its quite aggravating really. My > gearing is 22x32x44 & 32-12 if that tells you anything. > I'd rather carry the cookies so I could eat them but I see your point. > You are correct, a lighter bike is easier to climb with if that is > your goal. > My two friends and I just rode a very short 8 mile blast to the local > feed store. I ride a 30+ pound bike with 900 gram tires and they ride > bikes around 24-26 pounds with narrow 350 gram tires but we have > varying abilities and body weight along with various knee conditions > so if one of us gets ahead we wait for the others and don't worry > about it. This time we stopped for beer and took them back to our > starting point and enjoyed a cold frothy beverage coupled with casual > conversation while dodging mosquitoes in the cool evening air. Overall > a very pleasant and satisfying time. These scenarios are what makes > riding with others enjoyable for me. If I ride with folks who get > cranky when they have to wait for me or who leave me in their dust all > the time I just ride by myself. As I get older its more about a good > time with good friends. We seldom, if ever, talk of bike weights and > except for some friendly competitiveness once in a while we really > just prefer to ride and get our tired old selves moving. I'd like a > Roadeo but its not built to handle my weight so I'll ride my slow bike > with big tires and carry the cookies......and the beer! = ) > > On Aug 4, 2:01 pm, Anne Paulson <anne.paul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:51 AM, charlie <charles_v...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > What I am talking about is minor weight differences (as the original > > > poster mentioned) like between a 23 pound bike and say a 29 pounder. > > > Those differences can't amount to much > > > OK, let's say I compare my 23 pound bike with that same 23 pound bike, > > but with six pounds of... something... added. Food. Cookies, say. I > > and my twin will ride side by side, me on the unladen bike, OtherAnne > > on the bike with the cookies. > > -- > > OK, we're climbing our favorite hill, which usually takes us around 30 > > minutes. Say that I, with all of my bike clothes and everything, weigh > > 170 pounds. So I have a total of 193 pounds on the unladen bike, and > > OtherAnne has 199 pounds, about a three percent difference. Air > > resistance is negligible at climbing speed < 10 mph; speed is linear > > on total weight. > > > I drop OtherAnne like a bad habit. She's over a minute behind; I can't > > even see her. By the time she finally makes it to the top, I start > > making references to having to use a calendar to time her. (Of course, > > I can't have a cookie while I'm waiting, because she is carrying > > them.) > > > Where I live, cyclists climb a lot of long hills that take over half > > an hour, because the flats have traffic and stoplights. If I'm giving > > away over a minute on every hill to my friends with lighter bikes, > > that might not be vitally important, but it's not nothing, either. > > > -- Anne Paulson > > > My hovercraft is full of eels -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
