unless your new mexico roads are as smooth as wood floors I can not imagine it is the tires. Mine were fast as usual today, If I ride that route on my 28s I am wasted at the end of the ride and made it home no sooner. Is the problem based on feel or against your computer? Is it the wheel counter typ GPS? Might want to check you wheel diameters if it is the prior. I just run my usual loops against the clock to compare. The Jack Browns have never been the cause of a time loss.
Rob On Jul 16, 3:53 pm, PATRICK MOORE <[email protected]> wrote: > How long is the hill? If no more than 1/2 mile, you can: > > Get a smaller flip cog/fw > Walk > Stand > > Tho' I must admit that on today's hilly and windy ride on the Sam Hill, I > was grateful to be able to shift down (gad! I sunk as low as a 41" gear!!!) > on the steepish half mile hills I encountered, what with the temperature in > the mid 90s and humidity at a horrible 20%. > > Speaking of the Sam Hill: Tell me, y'all: the SH feels slow and doggy and > sluggish on the flats compared even to the Motobecane grocery bike and, > indeed, even to the Monocog. Possible reasons: I've set the wheel size wrong > -- I seem to be not quite 10% off on a 1 mile benchmark distance compared to > other bikes; or the Jack Brown Greens are dogs; or front in addition to rear > panniers are just huge wind catchers (tho' the huge Axioms on the rear of > the Motobecane don't seem to have the same effect). The possibility that the > dogginess is in *me* is, of course, a priori impossible. > > Would it feel better if I traded the hugely, grossly, egregiously fat JBs > for a more reasonably porcine 28 mm tire? > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:18 PM, William <[email protected]> wrote: > > You live on a 15% hill, you don't need a singlespeed > > You live on a 15% hill, you don't need a singlespeed > > You live on a 15% hill, you don't need a singlespeed > > You live on a 15% hill, you don't need a singlespeed > > You live on a 15% hill, you don't need a singlespeed > > You live on a 15% hill, you don't need a singlespeed > > > I keep repeating it to myself. I can't say it's working all that well > > >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330451742585&ssPag... > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<rbw-owners-bunch%[email protected]> > > . > > 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 [email protected] Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
