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• #14602
Epic engineering fail, most of the weight is unsprung.
How so?
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• #14603
Nothing wrong with riding a conversion. I ride one because I don't want to ride track geometry on the road.
+1 makes more sense to me to ride road geometry on the road.
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• #14604
How so?
Battery about half way along the swing arm, so that's 50% unsprung. Rack bag behind the axle, so that's >100% unsprung, motor in the wheel so that's exactly 100% unsprung. OK, so the fat cop is going to outweigh all of that, but the low grade suspension combined with a high proportion of unsprung weight is going to make that thing wallow like a hippo in a mud bath.
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• #14605
Meh.. Personally I would only have the one. If I could afford it..
not sure single spok is ever a good idea, if you were going to run spoks you need to accept they weigh a ton but they are strong as a pair, unless you were riding a disk on the rear, but then i guess you could afford a spinergy or tri-spoke which are better.
mdcc, want to chip in with some facts? im pretty sure that what ive just said is bullshit but im trying to back up my no one spok rule.
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• #14606
mdcc, want to chip in with some facts?
That's pretty much what I've been saying all along. Spoks effect on a bike is negative, but multiplies. 1 spok = -1, 2 spoks = +1. That does mean that a tricycle with spoks all round would be anti too.
For a flat time trial, spoks would actually be faster than Lightweights, despite weighing over 1kg more for a pair.
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• #14607
you're just not trying anymore are you?
I WANT PHYSICS!
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• #14608
1 spok = -1, 2 spoks = +1
Who needs physics when you have some good old fashioned maths?
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• #14609
if it were in a stack of bikes I honestly wouldn't give it a second glance..
@MacNall - who are you to tell him what to do with his frame/money? He's clearly not joining a track league on the thing, just riding it on the roads. Get over yourself.
+1 - bike is obviously ridden a lot. No need for it to be in this thread just because someone is jealous.
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• #14610
it's one of merckx's all time greats, ruined. more money than sense
Nothing that cant be undone on there. Just some misguided belief that this particular cycle should only have the one gear. I'd ride it, then I would source a period Chorus groupset for it. Then Id garnish it with a set of hand built ceramic open pros on Hope hubs with amber wall tyres........you get the idea.
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• #14611
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• #14612
oh so close.
could easily be saved though with a new chain/pedals
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• #14613
and a proper seat height
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• #14615
it will look even better with my blue speedplay pedals
By better I think she means differently worse
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• #14616
Didn't even see those pedals. Why even put them on?
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• #14617
cause she was wearing heels
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• #14618
I just realised how tiny that thing is, the really deep section wheels don't help it either.
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• #14619
is that a childs bike?
needs more streamers and kittens.
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• #14620
and a proper seat height
seat height seemed normal for someone of that height.
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• #14621
I meant in relation to the bars
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• #14622
That's also what I meant, still seemed normal.
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• #14623
Look at the saddle to bar drop on Emma Pooley's bike who's 5'2 and ride a 26" wheel bicycle;
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• #14624
These small people aren't normal.
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• #14625
paging 'hoops and damo
Winter training bike perhaps? Only needs to take the stickers off the rims and change the tyres and I reckon it would look pretty tight.
Nothing wrong with riding a conversion. I ride one because I don't want to ride track geometry on the road.