I rode my 559X22MM shod, lightwheeled Riv Commuter (~ 22 lbs with fenders, Tubus Fly, SON, Edeluxe, rear lights) with small load today, and I was having a blast standing to accelerate out of corners and on rises. Why? Yesterday I rode the heavy Sam Hill with its heavy, 622X33.33 wheels (and, to be fair, a heavier load, but that's the point, no?) that felt like molasses in comparison.
Patrick "cookies? Pah! Give me a PB&J burrito!" Moore On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:42 PM, CycloFiend <cyclofi...@earthlink.net> wrote: > on 8/4/10 9:57 PM, Anne Paulson at anne.paul...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:44 PM, doug peterson <dougpn...@cox.net> wrote: > >> Anne presents a concise thought exercise, pertinent to the original > >> post. While I agree that subtle differences in weight can make > >> significant differences in speed and/or time, I'll gladly haul the > >> cookies. > >> > > > > Of course, I omitted the other side of the story. I'm the one in my > > group who rides a Rivendell and carries cookies in a saddlebag. The > > others ride carbon fiber bikes, no saddlebags, no triple cranksets, > > and they barely carry anything. Yet I still climb faster than some of > > them-- because my bike is so comfortable, cookies on bike rides so > > delicious, and low gears so great, that I ride all the time. Better to > > have five pounds less on me and five pounds more on a great bike. > > Anne wins. > > Cookies are good. > > Also, I've found from personal experience that if you bring baked goods on > long rides, people will happily wait for you at the top of hills. Maybe > not > every hill, but enough that you don't have to worry about being picked off > by predatory animals when you are out back of beyond. > > And, if folks do want to see the effects of weight on climbing, there are > tools at Analytic Cycling that allow you to do that with great specificity. > > http://analyticcycling.com > > It comes up in a few of the analysis articles in Bicycle Quarterly. > > I'll also add to Anne's scenario - > > When you crest out 60 seconds behind yourself, and the other you is riding > a > skinny-tired bike downhill at speed over even slightly degraded pavement, > the you riding the phenomenally stable, large-tire allowing Rivendell > design > will pretty easily catch up to the now-very-nervous-and-vibrating you, and, > while toasting them with the cookie, easily zip through the next chicane > and > disappear from sight. But, you are also nice enough to ease up on the > pedals > when you hit the level ground, so that the other you can catch up. > > Palabra. > > - Jim > > > -- > Jim Edgar > cyclofi...@earthlink.net > > Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries - http://www.cyclofiend.com > Current Classics - Cross Bikes > Singlespeed - Working Bikes > > Gallery updates now appear here - http://cyclofiend.blogspot.com > > > "Nigel did some work for some of the other riders at Allied, onces who > still > rode metal. He hadn't liked it when Chevette had gone for a paper frame." > -- William Gibson, "Virtual Light" > > > -- > 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<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com -- 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.
