on 11/21/10 4:01 PM, Kelly at tkslee...@gmail.com wrote: > I started a thread awhile back asking or stating I thought I would > lose 2 or 3 miles per hour. I started another thread on Bicycle > Lifestyle "How important is speed" or some such garbage. Then as > reading the Simpleone thread here it looks like it was vearing off > into weight and ride quality etc. (snipped)
Thanks for sharing all that - it's always a good thing to get fresh impressions. I know it always makes me revisit some of my theories and opinions. One thing I have noticed - particularly since I switch back and forth mostly between my Quickbeam and Hilsen - is that it takes a few rides before I feel "fast"... (or maybe "not slower"...) on whatever bicycle I have not ridden. They are set up pretty closely, but there are differences which exist. The more miles I log consistently on one, the more rides it takes on the other until I again feel dialed. It's actually a very subtle difference, and it is not that the new one feels bad. It's that after a long ride, or a couple rides, it suddenly feels even better. What I'm indirectly getting at is that you've made a bunch of changes in position and contact points with your bicycle, and any muscle memory you had is with respect to your other bikes. I'd expect that as you log more time with your Hilsen, you may find that you gain some efficiencies...or maybe more appropriately...familiarities with your new rig. So, keep riding and enjoy! Thanks again for relating the adventure! - Jim -- Jim Edgar cyclofi...@earthlink.net Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries - http://www.cyclofiend.com Current Classics - Cross Bikes Singlespeed - Working Bikes Your Photos are needed! - Send them here - http://www.cyclofiend.com/guidelines "I threw one leg over my battle-scarred all-terrain stump-jumper and rode several miles to work. I'd sprayed it with some cheap gold paint so it wouldn't look nice. Locked my bike to a radiator, because you never knew, and went in." -- Neal Stephenson, "Zodiac" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
