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On a slightly different tack. I watched a guy this morning bombing along the road full pelt on a full-suss mountain bike. He looked to be busting a gut but every pedal stroke he was bouncing up and down massively. I felt pretty smug about my efficient fixed gear bike. Is the difference in efficiency really as much as it looks?
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winston may pros,
Still haven't fixed that sticky 'n' key yet...
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Skullhead I want a tourer...
there I've said it.
Me too, I just want to ride off for 2 or 3 month, live in a tent, grow beard and eat lentils.
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it was windy on my first ride and I didn't appreciate how much bigger the gears were, I ride 77" fixed, I struggled more with the wind behind trying to turn a much bigger gear than I'm used to, last night I kept it on the small front ring and it felt a bit better
next plan is to flip my fixed wheel and see if 81" would manageable on my local time trial course then the geared bike can be saved for hilly courses
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TheBrick(Tommy) [quote]Skullhead I want a tourer...
there I've said it.
Me too, I just want to ride off for 2 or 3 month, live in a tent, grow beard and eat lentils.[/quote]
I gather from the lack of winkies ;) there you're serious? or maybe archly sarcastic and I just missed it. I'd love to do that too, but I have a mortgage to pay, and a girlf who doesn't really dig cycling... and a three year old.
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smithchild On a slightly different tack. I watched a guy this morning bombing along the road full pelt on a full-suss mountain bike. He looked to be busting a gut but every pedal stroke he was bouncing up and down massively. I felt pretty smug about my efficient fixed gear bike. Is the difference in efficiency really as much as it looks?
no it's more!
try riding a 50Lb FS DH rig up a hill you usually don't notice on your road bike, it's fucking horrible.
even my hardtail MTB feels like total shit on the road, it's a heavy bike yes, but the sus forks and large volume tyres steal a lot of your effort away. It really is the difference between night and day
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Skullhead [quote]TheBrick(Tommy) [quote]Skullhead I want a tourer...
there I've said it.
Me too, I just want to ride off for 2 or 3 month, live in a tent, grow beard and eat lentils.[/quote]
I gather from the lack of winkies ;) there you're serious? or maybe archly sarcastic and I just missed it. I'd love to do that too, but I have a mortgage to pay, and a girlf who doesn't really dig cycling... and a three year old.[/quote]
Yeah I am serious about every thing other than the lentils, I like lentils but I think I would get board of them.
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RPM [quote]smithchild On a slightly different tack. I watched a guy this morning bombing along the road full pelt on a full-suss mountain bike. He looked to be busting a gut but every pedal stroke he was bouncing up and down massively. I felt pretty smug about my efficient fixed gear bike. Is the difference in efficiency really as much as it looks?
no it's more!
try riding a 50Lb FS DH rig up a hill you usually don't notice on your road bike, it's fucking horrible.
even my hardtail MTB feels like total shit on the road, it's a heavy bike yes, but the sus forks and large volume tyres steal a lot of your effort away. It really is the difference between night and day[/quote]
Seconded, even with the tyres (2.2inches wide (rear) & 2.35 (front)) at 60PSI and my forks pumped up to 80 the drag is noticable.
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but a rigid mbt with narrowish slicks can role quite well.
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TheBrick(Tommy) [quote]Skullhead I want a tourer...
there I've said it.
Me too, I just want to ride off for 2 or 3 month, live in a tent, grow beard and eat lentils.[/quote]
I want to go touring on a vintage steel Italian racing bike carrying nothing but a credit card and a change of underwear
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2 weeks on and I'm giving up gears, I did a ride today of 16 miles and felt knackered after a mile and my legs were killing me by half way, wasn't even hilly or windy, my legs have never felt so tired as they do right now, previous 9 months on fixed and they never felt tired
back on fixed from now on
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i think i found the problem, your gearie is made of iron.
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Stormy 2 weeks on and I'm giving up gears, I did a ride today of 16 miles and felt knackered after a mile and my legs were killing me by half way, wasn't even hilly or windy, my legs have never felt so tired as they do right now, previous 9 months on fixed and they never felt tired
back on fixed from now on
Do you have your brakes on all the time or something?
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dissed by the master :o(
I'm working on the souplesse - riding fixed just makes you think about it more.