"Its my thought that a "bike" climbs about as good as the legs
powering it !"
Indeed... one can only blame bike geometry so much for how hard it is
get up some hills... I just like the feeling that when I'm pushing
hard into the pedals, it's clearly turning into forward, upward
momentum. On some
Whoo-hoo, when's delivery???
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 7:42 AM, TSW wrote:
> Thanks for all the replies! I was at Riv yesterday and asked them for
> a steep hill or two to climb. Tho' I'm just on the other side of the
> Culture-stop tunnel :-) I'm not terribly familiar with the area, like,
> how
Its my thought that a "bike" climbs about as good as the legs powering
it ! I know without any doubts that when I was 21 years of age I could
climb a local hill on my then Bianchi road bike in a 42x24 ratio.
These days I would have to use a 22x32 or suffer a heart attack.
On May 8, 7:42 am, TSW w
Ahh, yeah. That's what happens...
>
> I decided to get the front rack and cream
>longboard fenders to get a really good swallow of the koolaid.
>
>So I left with a cake of pine soap, a Riv-branded plastic change
>purse, my credit card a bit lighter, and, later,
Thanks for all the replies! I was at Riv yesterday and asked them for
a steep hill or two to climb. Tho' I'm just on the other side of the
Culture-stop tunnel :-) I'm not terribly familiar with the area, like,
how to get to that little known hill known as Mt Diablo. So who got
on a bike to take
I don't find the Sam Hillborne bad at hill climbing. Although with
the longer chainstays, it isn't the quickest thing in the world. Will
probably feel slower than your Trek. And, like Patrick, I can feel a
bit of wheel flop at certain speeds, and with certain tires. With my
style of riding, it
Well Tia, Ernest Hemingway once said, "Never trust an adjective." Or
as Paul Simon put it, "One man's ceiling is another man's floor." So
one riders "sluggish" is another riders roadrunner. I find my
Rambouillet very zippy and very much like my '88 Marinoni, which
carries World Championship str
Hi TS,
I just did the Grizzly Peak Century on my Hillborne (roughly 8550 ft.
of climbing). Mine is a 60 cm frame, and I enjoy the ride the
Hillborne and that size frame give. There is a steep climb in Walnut
Creek/Alamo called Castle Crest Road you could try.
Tony
On May 4, 7:53 am, TSW wrote:
"Riv HQ isn't
too handy to a steep hill"
There's a little known climb called Mt Diablo nearby.
On May 4, 7:53 am, TSW wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've searched all over forum archives and can't seem to find much
> discussion on this question: how does the Sam climb?
>
> I'm very close to pulling the trig
