On One Pompino owners...

Cool, PM coming

Gave my Pompino a Cinelli smile.

Gave my Pompino a Cinelli smile.

Euph.?

How much performance will i lose switching from a drop bar to a mary bar. Is there a way to minimize the loss with set up?

Why change if you're concerned about how fast you go?

On my Pompetamine with inverted North Road bars, the stack and reach is about the same as riding on the hoods on my road bike, and I've done over 20mph round the Fifield course on it. On my T3 with the same form, I do about 24mph, but I can't ride the T3 on the dirt roads down by the Jubilee river :-)

If i can replicate the reach i have now riding the tops of the drop bar i have on there now i'll be good to go. If not then ill try inverting um and if that doesnt work theyre going on the rigid 9er and go back tot the drop bar.

If the lacquer is the same as on my 456 (and it looks like it is) it's quite thick so should be reasonably OK for rust, mines lasted fine so far apart from a small patch it came with which got me a discount and I got rid of anyway.

So I've just moved to Streatham and fuck me if my new flat's not one of the highest dwellings in London. I can see Wembley from my balcony.

As such my 48x16 gearing is not good and I'm up out the saddle for long periods of my commute home.

I could gear down but 48x16 really works for me on the flats and often feels undergeared. My other option for the pompino would be a hub gear on the back which I'd probably try and get OTP.

I'm reading vague notions of snapped chainstays due to forcing 127mm hubs in pompinos. Can anyone speak from recent personal experience or recommend any approaches?

HTFU?

The key point is that you've just move.

Give it a couple months before you do an amey.

Thank you Edward.

Probably wise. I've only been in 3 weeks.

Me and the Mrs. both knackered but we're also doing marathon training at the mo so could be combination of moving/training and harder commute.

I could gear down but 48x16 really works for me on the flats and often feels undergeared.

A very respectable 20mph is only 85rpm at this ratio. Stop grinding, learn to spin. Gear down, basically.

If you find the jump from 48/16 to 48/17 too big, a smaller chainring will have a smaller jump instead (47/16).

48/16 is a little high for an everyday gearing IMHO.

Does it make a difference if it's not fixed but SS?

I'm on SS.

I'd gear lower for SS than fixed.

Gear much lower then. You can always coast on the way down.

48/18 or 19 would make the hill very comfortable.

Gear much lower then. You can always coast on the way down.

Polo >>>>

I'd gear lower for SS than fixed.

I'm considering making one side of my flip-flop SS. Could you explain why you recommend gearing lower?

Cheers

Cause coasting.

Hmmm...I think I'ma go 48/18 before considering a hub gear then.

cheaper too.

Well yeah that as well. Plus mechanically simpler, easier for punctures...

Cause coasting.

I'm missing something here, probably really simple but why is coasting easier/better if you have a lower gear?

It mean you won't spun out on the descent as you would on a fixed wheel, not that it's a bad thing of course.

It's not that coasting is easier, it's that going down steep hills is harder on a low gear if fixed. Once you have a freewheel, that constraint disappears.