I have no plans to buy a Roadini, but the question is very interesting in a general way -- ie, what makes a bike fast, or at least, feel fast? For me, it's not "planing" -- or at least, I don't feel faster on, say, small-tube, 531 frames than on stouter Rivendell OS frames. If you remove tires and setup, I think a great deal comes down to geometry and position on the bike. One of the faster feeling -- and, measuring by felt effort to maintain a given cadence in well known, given conditions, faster in reality -- bikes that I rode was actually rather tank like, but when I first rode it, immediately felt "right" with just the adjustment of bar height and saddle position.
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 3:36 AM, Peter Turskovitch <patrick.tu...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > > *I know the motor makes the speed, but there are clear differences > between, say, a Surly and a Sancineto. Call it what you want, acceleration, > response to pedal input, snappiness, liveliness, whatever. I'm not talking > about road vibrations that feel "fast", nor am I talking about top speed, > which I think is regulated more by drag than anything else. A fast bike > lets you keep up in a peloton. Is the roadini fast? I sure hope so, because > I think it looks amazing. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
