I agree with all the comments here but there is another reason to go single speed and thats SPEED. I regularly rode geared and single speed bikes over rolling countryside paved roads often back to back and the single speed was invariably faster. The same holds true when i went offroad and single track, my single speed mtb was faster over the same route. Doing 24hour mtb events with 15km loops the only thing faster than a single speed is a single speed at night. Why are bikes faster at night? Is it because we cant see the hills and danger or are we simply reverting to our childhood for a while when nobody can see
On Tuesday, 20 April 2021 at 01:14:43 UTC+2 Patrick Moore wrote: > From BS's today's post, describing a current electric shifting system and > comparing it to the needs of ordinary riding. Thoughts like this make me > appreciate ss/fixed even more. > > *Speaking of the app, it’ll provide all the analytics and customization > features with Rival AXS as it does for SRAM’s other AXS groupsets, such as > time spent in each gear, battery life, and component usage. Or if you don’t > want to bother, that’s also fine, but it’s nice to know the information is > there if you want it. Firmware updates are also done wirelessly.* > > *Do you really need to know how much time you spend in each gear? It’s > amazing how much tech exists purely in service to itself, and does nothing > more than look up its own ass. They should really be careful though, > because if your components tell you how much time you spend in each gear > you might figure out how many of them you don’t need, and next thing you > know you’re riding around on an old mountain bike with seven speeds and > friction shifti*ng. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/f3e34ef6-559b-4602-a175-1fdd3fae7e3en%40googlegroups.com.
