On Sep 22, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Anne Paulson wrote: >> I remember reading one report where a guy described climbing up an Alpine >> road, fully loaded, in a bit over 5 hours. I got up that same col in 1 1/4 >> hours. Maybe he had four times as much fun as I did, I don't know. > > Roughly speaking, hill climbing speed is proportional to total weight, > for a given person.
Sort of. But that's not apples and apples, since the time difference is from the report of two different people. > But are you claiming that this dude's total > weight, which is to say him, his bike and everything he was carrying > on the bike, was four times as much as what you carry? That is, if > your total weight of yourself, your bike and your gear is, say, 200 > pounds, this dude was carrying 800 pounds? In his report he noted he was carrying 80 lbs of gear plus him and his bike. I don't know what he or the bike weighed. I was carrying less than 15 lbs of gear and weighed 207 lbs plus a 25 lb bicycle. He said it took him a bit over five hours, I have to take him at is word on that. I timed my ride using my cyclocomputer. You'll have to take my word on that. > I don't think you're saying that. I think you are a fast cyclist, and > this other dude was a slower cyclist. I think even if you switched > bikes, you'd still beat him. So why are you harping on weight? Hmm, since I'm not "harping" on weight I think I struck some kind of nerve in this group. The defensiveness is amazing. Anyway, since I have no wish to prolong needless conflict in a very pleasant mailing list, I am over an out on this. Haul whatever you like, as I have said several times already. You're the one who's got to pedal it up the hill, not me. -- 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.
