Now that is an insight worth noting; good on yer. But it doesn't make the 10 lb or 18 lb or 24 lb bike act any differently, whether I am used to that or not and I don't believe that we lose all track so to speak of these behaviors when we stick to them.
Anyway, I have no desire to add weight to the gofast: I've enjoyed it for getting on for 12 years and, all relative or not, it is always a joy to get on it. (I did heft a 12 lb Calfee fixie ...) Odd: the Fargo is a real porker: not only at least 33 lb (37 with toolbag, on bike shop digital scale) but with massively heavy rims and tires (about 800 gr each ie, for each rim, each tire), not to mention quarter-lb 722X2" tubes. But it doesn't feel all that slow on the flats -- perhaps I'll cruise at 17 compared to 18-19 on the gofast -- but it does feel doggish on the hills! Odd, though, on a route similar to today's, with some longish, steepish climbs, the Fargo is not that much slower all around, an oddity that I attribute to the fact that I can coast down said hills at 28 mph instead of (as I do when I am recovering from going up) sluffing down at 21 mph or so. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:55 PM, cm <chrispmur...@hotmail.com> wrote: > We are relative beings-- we compare our experiences to other > experiences. Hot/cold, high/low, and light/heavy do not exist > independently but only in relation to the other. Walk up a mountain > with a 40 lb pack and then with a 10 lb pack-- betcha the 10 lb feels > light and you feel faster. Now do it with no pack and then the 10 > lber- feel heavy? slower? Here in Tucson it is usually only out-of- > towners in the swimming pool in February when it is 70 degrees, the > rest of us are in our winter jackets. There are countless examples of > this. > > I think that weight matters-- though more to ourselves then to any > Now this absolute. If Patrick rode a 10 lb race bike up the same hill > I am sure his fast bike would feel not so fast. But that doesnt make > the 10 lber a fast bike, it makes Patrick faster on it. If Patrick > only rode the fast bike I would guess it would stop feeling fast as > the experience of riding the slow (commuter) bike faded. > > Cheers! > cm > > -- > 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.
