On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't even ride my bike hands-free. The geometry of the bike and the > amount of trail make it practically impossible, at least at a speed > slow enough for me to feel safe hands-free - it's the complete > opposite of a track bike.
Back when I had a road bike (before The Accident of 2007), I was continually surprised at the huge difference in riding hands-free between that and my trackbike. The shorter wheelbase, small amount of trail and vertical geometry of the trackbike make handsfree riding very comfortable. The road bike, OTOH, seemed to "have a mind of its own", and once it was going in a certain direction, it wanted to keep going that way, despite how much I leaned (or tried to lean) my body the other way. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
