On 09/07/2016 03:03 PM, Lungimsam wrote:
I have asked two people on organized bike rides that appeared to be non-readers of BQ and RBW (based on their statements) and they both said they felt no flex/planing on their 1) Mercian skinny tubed french made bike, and 2) their Reynolds skinny tubes British bike. Both responded to my question as if they had never heard about the alleged benefits of steel frame flex with skinny thin walled tubing. They appeared to be people who just ride and don't read biking literature/blogs, etc. The only people I know of who talk about planing that I have encountered are people who read this stuff.
Many of us have encountered it but prior to reading had no vocabulary to describe it, other than what we used to call such frames back in the 70s: "lively".
So I still don't know if skinnytubeframeflex really helps. Guess I will also have to try one and see for myself. Although I will say my Rambouillet is seems easier to pedal down the road than my Hillborne and Bleriot. The front triangle is the same but rear triangle a smidge lighter. Shorter stays, different geo so hard to compare.
I wish you would have said while we where at St Ignatius. You could have borrowed my VO Randonneur, taken it down to the bottom of the hill and ridden it back up again. :-)
That said, I just rode my way through a hilly century and the Bleriot felt plenty fast and easy to pedal down the road. I love my Bleriot bike.
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