Yes, I've had a couple of pedal strikes since I converted my Riv Custom to 650B, although I haven't crashed. It's a late 90s model I think from other discussions on similar bikes on this list and has an 80mm BB drop.
There is a tricky turn into my neighborhood from a busy 4 lane street onto a small street and it's graded the wrong way, basically, the inside part of the turn is the highest in elevation. I have learned not to pedal around that corner even though it's natural to because I am trying to get away from the busy street that I must briefly ride on to access my neighborhood if I am coming from the east. So to make a short story long, yes, I've had this also. But it doesn't really diminish my enjoyment of the bike. On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:44 AM, IanA <attew...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, winter has finally passed and the road grit has mostly been swept > away, so the LongLow came out of storage (the livingroom - where else?) and > I was enjoying whipping along at speeds I'd all but forgotten about on my > 80's mountain bike that continues reliably in all conditions, but is dogged > about it. The problem is that the mountain bike has a high bottom bracket > and will not pedal strike even when pedaling during tight lean through turn. > > First day out on the LL this year and I hit speeds of 55km/h (downhill), > but even on the flats the computer told me 40 km/h once or twice. Such > fun. Sadly, at quite low speed thankfully, I turned sharply, pedaling > through grounding my pedal and stalling the bike. The pannier saved the > bike from scratches and I was unscathed. A little rubber shaved off the > bar end shifter. > > It used to be my habit to coast through hard turns with the pedal in the > 12 o clock position on the lean side. I'm concerned that I've been > retrained by my mountain bike. I'm worried that I'll forget one time too > many. Does this happen to anyone else? If so, does the body remember when > the mind is absent? The LL has such a low bb that if one forgets pedal > strike is to be expected. > > Ian A/the unfrozen north. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
