I ride a similar setup to Jim, a Riv Road converted to 650b, and I scrape a pedal occasionally. Never catastrophically, just the light scrape when pedaling around a curve with uneven or up-sloping terrain on the inside.
Like Patrick, I usually try to take care. I didn't ride enough this winter to start any bad habits, even with studs on my KOM; Iowa was pretty frozen too. IYou can always swap on a shorter crank for a bit more clearance. I swapped my 175 Campy Racing T crank for a 170 Stronglight 99 and like the change. Pedals can make a big difference in clearance, too. Tim Gavin Cedar Rapids, IA On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have the opposite problem: I ride fixed so much that even on coasters I > corner very delicately -- in fact, I've lost many of such bike handling > skills I once had for this reason. But I have clipped a fixed gear pedal > once or twice, fortunately not falling. > > My advice: be mindful. I do have something to keep in mind on the > (coaster) Ram that I don't have to mind on my other bikes (2 26" roads, > Fargo): toe overlap. It's not a big deal, but I have to keep it in mind. > > In fact, one benefit of riding fixed is this sort of "anticipatory > mindfulness" that becomes a habit and -- one hopes -- carries over to other > bikes and other conditions. > > One great pleasure of a former fixie, a high-bb Diamond Back mtb shod with > tall 60 mm Big Apples, was that I could lean into corners with little > danger of hitting a pedal. > > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:44 PM, 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. >> > > > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > Patrick Moore > Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Etats Unis > > ************************************* > > “Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never > was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. > Where is there a place for you to be? 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