I pedal out my gears from the drops before going to a tuck and I'm 6'7" 267 lbs as of about 24 hours ago when I weighed myself. Pedaling out is about 28-29mph.
Although for me the tuck point really matters less than the grade involved. On a steep hill I can tuck at 7 mph and I will be going 40+ in a very short period of time. I'm not going to worry about when the optimal tuck is though. The unracerish view is to tuck whenever you feel like tucking, and not tuck when you don't feel like tucking. What's also important to me is good etiquette - as in, don't fly by on the downhill the people that you were wheelsucking off of before you got to that hill. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Edwin W <dweenda...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I can't remember which BQ issue had the tucking stat, but I thought it was > more like 25mph rather than 35mph. There was an article about tucking in > the last year and since then I have tested it a good bit and found for my > not particularly aero 6'0 2-- pound self on a 35 lb (give or take) Sam > Hillborne (with only one top tube, though, and it IS orange), 25 mph is the > "tuck point." > And so my 40x11 with 700x38 99 inch gear doesn't get used much. > > Edwin > > > On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 12:58:23 PM UTC-6, Bill Lindsay wrote: >> >> Every state in America has a highest point. Among those 50 highest >> points, the highest highest point is about 19,685 feet on top of Mt >> McKinley. The lowest highest point is in Florida at 345 ft. But there's a >> song about lowest highest point being in Delaware, and Delaware has the >> lowest mean elevation, so I always think of Delaware having the lowest >> highest point. >> >> I'm thinking about pushing my 1x9 drivetrain as low as possible, while >> still being useful. I'm thinking specifically about a 38 ring, with a >> 12-36 cassette. I'm wondering if I will hate the drivetrain if my highest >> gear is only 83.3 inches. >> >> So, of all your multi-gear, derailer equipped bikes, who's got the LOWEST >> HIGHEST GEAR? >> >> My current personal lowest-highest gear is on my Atlantis. It's a 40x12 >> with 700x38 tires, so about 91.6 gear inches. Jan Heine's Herse has a high >> gear just over 90" and claims to have never been dropped on a descent due >> to not having a high enough gear. He asserts tucking at over 35mph is >> always more efficient than pedalling. >> >> >> -- > 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.
