True, but I've noticed this over and over again -- and I have bad days on the gofast, too -- it's just that they are faster, at least uphill, than bad days on the other bikes.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:15 PM, newenglandbike <matthiasbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > There's a really long, shitty* hillclimb on the way home from my > work. Yesterday, I barely made it-- despite having ultimately > shifted into the granny near the top and taking it easy at about 0.003 > mph. This afternoon, I launched up it like it was nuthin', middle > ring/cog front/back. Same bike... basket up front, rear rack, > nokian studded tires. Maybe it was the brisk air today? Whatever it > was: there are good days and there are bad days. > > > > *(narrow road, dirty snowbanks making it even narrower, clusterf$#& of > impatient Yukigator drivers) > > > > On Feb 15, 3:41 pm, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I just got back from a nice if brief-ish 1 hour ride on the '99 Riv >> gofast, newly equipped with pretty Phil front hub (I have decided not >> to replace the computer -- just yet, anyway, but I guesstimate that I >> covered, easily, 23 miles over rolling, mostly suburban terrain). >> Anyway, I deliberately went out of my way to climb some steepish, 1/2 >> mile long hills, mostly standing in the 75" gear, and blow me down, if >> I sped up those hills like ... like .... like ... Oh! Like Bartali, >> shifting into a *higher* gear at the bottom of a steep climb, turning >> with a sneer and glare at his competition, and leaving them in his >> dust. Sortof. >> >> Anyway, the difference between this gofast that, now, without a >> computer, weighs a featherlite 17 3/4 lb, and the almost identical but >> built as a commuter '03, is about 5 lb, and I certainly can tell the >> difference on the hills. >> >> Just so you know. >> >> -- >> Patrick Moore >> Albuquerque, NM >> For professional resumes, contact >> Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com > > -- > 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-bunch@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. > > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com -- 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-bunch@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.
