On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 09:30 -0600, Tim McNamara wrote: > On Jan 18, 2009, at 7:26 AM, EricP wrote: > > > If Bicycle Quarterly is any indication the trend in go fast seems to > > be more for bikes with non-oversized tubing. > > Well, it's perhaps a trend among bike builders wishing to market > bikes to Jan's readers. There is a tendency to take anything > published in a magazine as fact, and readers of BQ; Jan's writing is > charismatic and he tends to express his preferences frequently. > Those are worth evaluating through personal experimentation, but > these sorts of things tend to become dogmatic. > > I'm not going there myself, since my best riding and "fastest" bikes > have all had OS frame tubes. I remember riding standard tube frames > in the 70s and 80s, listening to the derailleur rub and thinking > "jeez, that's annoying," with the added benefits of ghost > shifting. Jan is tall and whippet-thin, I am tall and more black > lab-like (and a black lab getting too much kibble, at that). What he > finds preferable, I may not.
I have a couple of steel OS-tubed bikes, a Saluki and a Kogswell P/R (1st gen). I have two with old-school standard diameter tubing: 531 and 7-whatever, I forget. The first two are notably stiffer. The standard-diameter tubed bikes are no more prone to derailleur rub or ghost shifting than the OS tubed ones. I'm 5'11 and today probably closer to 100kg than I would care to acknowledge. I like the way those two standard-diameter tubed frames ride. I also like what happens when I get to a small short rise and decide not to shift, but rather put down 4 or 5 extra-powerful pedal strokes. I can power those bikes over small rides and up gentle grades in a way I can't with the OS-tubed frames, and it's a pleasure to do so. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
