] Bleriot vs. Quickbeam efficiency
I've had my bleriot for 2 years and my quickbeam for 1 year. I bought
the quickbeam to essentially be a simpler, single-speed version of my
bleriot. Since then the quickbeam has become my preferred bike. I
find that I'm (empirically) more efficient on my quickbeam
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Subject: [RBW] Bleriot vs. Quickbeam efficiency
I've had my bleriot for 2 years and my quickbeam for 1 year. I bought
the quickbeam to essentially be a simpler, single-speed version of my
bleriot. Since
I've had my bleriot for 2 years and my quickbeam for 1 year. I bought
the quickbeam to essentially be a simpler, single-speed version of my
bleriot. Since then the quickbeam has become my preferred bike. I
find that I'm (empirically) more efficient on my quickbeam and don't
tire as easily.
I think some of it has to do with the fact that you have to commit or walk
on a single speed. Whereas on the geared bike you can always gear down and
take it easy. I would imagine there are many times on the quickbeam where
you shift down if you could but you don't because you can't, so you end up
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Clayton Scott clayton...@gmail.com wrote:
Whereas on the geared bike you can always gear down and take it easy.
How, exactly, does this make you more tired?
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I could imagine going up in a hill in a granny gear spinning frantically
being more exhausting than muscling up it. It it might be mentally more
fatiguing too.
On downhills you might be tempted to pedal in a bigger gear on the geared
bike as opposed to coasting on the SS.
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