I've really been loving the single speeding simplicity of my new-to-me QB, but it's not feeling particularly quick. I was expecting a slick, efficient, butter-smooth feel to the bike, but it seems a bit more like I'm riding through peanut butter. I'm finding I need to pedal on slight downhills that my Sam and LHT will accelerate while coasting down. Sluggish is about the only way to describe it.
There are a couple of things I'm thinking, and would appreciate any advice: 1) This is my first experience with an Albatross bar and the upright posture may be increasing my (already considerable) wind resistance more than I'm used to. 2) I added a Dos Eno freewheel and it's got a pretty hefty amount of drag. When I have the bike in the stand, and spin the rear wheel in the forward, freewheeling, direction the cranks spin right along too. This doesn't happen with my cassette-equipped bikes. The wheel also doesn't coast (in the stand) nearly as long as my shimano cassette equipped bikes. Maybe this gets better over time? It's a brand new freewheel. I had a Shimano freewheel on it for a while, and the bike felt better, but could the Dos Eno really be that slow? 3) The Jack Brown Blue/Open Sport wheels on the QB are close enough in weight to the Kojak/Dyads on my Sam that I don't think I'm noticing a radical difference in inertia. Tire pressures are checked and fine. 4) This is my first ever single speed (if you don't count the Schwinn BMX bike I had when I was 12) - is there any trick to setting them up that I may not be aware of? I read all of Sheldon's advice on the topic... my chainline seems fine (wouldn't matter coasting anyway) and the tension seems OK. The wheel is straight.... Thanks in advance for any help, Pete in CT SingleSixtySidepullSam... and Quick-ish-beam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/4wwVI1dXlOYJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@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.
