I notice that effect a lot on the fat bike. LOTS of wheel weight there! When you hit a climb with momentum on your side, you can feel that rotating mass throwing you up the hill. It feels similar to the way a fixed gear seems to push you along as you pedal it...
Steve On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > On 01/03/2014 01:02 PM, Bill Lindsay wrote: > >> >> The difference between A and B will be the extra work the rider had to do >> to "spin up" the extra 200g of rolling weight. I'm saying that difference >> will be small. The heavier wheel is harder to spin up, but the magnitude >> of the difference is small. If the total power output of the rider is ~100 >> Watts, then the difference between the two will be 1 or 2 Watts. Less than >> the difference we suffer by running a dynamo. >> >> > And the additional weight will act as a flywheel, and help keep the > rotation more nearly constant. > > > -- > 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
