In my case, stripping off the two Ortlieb PVC rolltop panniers with their ever-present load (2x Kryptonite New Yorks and about 15 lbs of accidentally hoarded tools/snacks/raingear/bungies/emergency glucose-boosting sodas etc.) drops the weight of my daily rider by at least 30 pounds. By your (presumably sarcastic) formula, that's 2.5 MPH faster right there.
And when I switch to a bike that's a scoshe smaller, with no racks/lights/generators and lighter tubing/components/rims/tires to get down to the low 20-pound range, that's when the benefits of putting 90%+ of your miles on a 55 pound RV of a bike really shows up. Even though I realize these numbers in theory, it's always a surprise to me how much faster I am on the gofast bikes. Maybe I'm unteachable, or lack object persistence or something. Thread relevance: Merino tops, jeans/chinos, Ankle Biter leg straps, almost all day almost every day. My old leather straps (Selle An-Atomica used to throw in a pair of matching leather leg straps when you ordered a saddle, if you told them you commuted on a bike) of I can't find the Ankle Biters; they're ancient, the velcro patches are coming loose, and no glue I've tried seems to hold them down. Peter Adler Berkeley, the geographically smaller but demographically larger CA On Wednesday, September 27, 2023 at 12:04:17 PM UTC-7 Bill Lindsay wrote: "You get way faster when your bike gets lighter." Proven fact. If you want to go 1 mile per hour faster, all you have to do is make your bike 12 pounds lighter. This is known. -- 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/4aa79300-9860-4793-af54-43a972d095b7n%40googlegroups.com.
