On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha
Cyclery wrote:
>
> My one skinny-tire bike (an early 80s pink Univega) has 700x25 Conti
> Gatorskins (which I doubt would fare well in Heine's tests), and it is
> plenty faster than my other bikes with fatter tires. It is also
> lighter than m
My one skinny-tire bike (an early 80s pink Univega) has 700x25 Conti
Gatorskins (which I doubt would fare well in Heine's tests), and it is
plenty faster than my other bikes with fatter tires. It is also
lighter than my other bikes, partly because it has skinny tires. It
turns out that, in many wa
On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 16:42 -0500, Bill Connell wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:19 PM, CycloFiend wrote:
> > On the roads around these parts, the two times that I consistently either
> > gain distance upon or catch up with folks on the Race Modeled Road Bikes
> > (RMRB) is when we hit uneven p
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:19 PM, CycloFiend wrote:
> On the roads around these parts, the two times that I consistently either
> gain distance upon or catch up with folks on the Race Modeled Road Bikes
> (RMRB) is when we hit uneven pavement (well, that and descending). They
> look at the Jack B
On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 14:34 -0700, CycloFiend wrote:
> By which term (though it did make me think of the Hansen brothers' "Old Time
> Hockey!" cry) he meant my Silver Barends. He literally didn't think they
> worked, and that I was running them for some sort of statement.
>
> I tried to impress
I'll add one more observation about shifters to this thread.
A number of weeks ago, I was riding home. A guy in team-derivative kit on a
MCRB caught up to me and we chatted a bit. He complemented the Hilsen, then
asked what year it was. I thought for a second, then replied, "It's an
aught-eig
On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 14:19 -0700, CycloFiend wrote:
> I think that's starting to change. I've had a couple conversations with
> folks when I'm out on the Hilsen, rolling along fat and happy on my 32/33's
> while they clatter and bang away on 23's. There have been some articles in
> the race cr
on 8/29/09 7:54 AM, Tim McNamara at tim...@bitstream.net wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 29, 2009, at 6:06 AM, JoelMatthews wrote:
>
>> Admittedly, I know very little about club racing dynamics, but I
>> expect the majority of people who buy the Roadeo will never use tires
>> wider than a 28. At least no
On Aug 29, 2009, at 10:26 AM, JoelMatthews wrote:
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>> Club riders will generally be using 700 x 23. Frequently smaller.
>> At 120 PSI. It's just a fact of life in racing clubs. This is
>> target market that does not think like people who use 35 mm tires,
>> tweed bags and high bars. If you
On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 09:54 -0500, Tim McNamara wrote:
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> Club riders will generally be using 700 x 23. Frequently smaller.
> At 120 PSI. It's just a fact of life in racing clubs. This is
> target market that does not think like people who use 35 mm tires,
> tweed bags and high bars.
DT's on a bike designed for club rides is kinda laughable-- not that
there is anything wrong with them, just that NO ONE on any club ride
that i have ever done or seen uses them. Lots of club riders today
have never even ridden DT's. I have only ridden with them once and
hated it-- what a dumb pla
Oh ... the irony.
DT shifters is likely a design decision, it's not as if there's a
shortage of DT shifters bosses is there?
The Irony is . . . why does the Waterford made Bomabadil have DT
shift bosses? . This kind of stops the thinking for a minute.
Who's gonna use DT shifters on
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:26 AM, JoelMatthews wrote:
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>> Club riders will generally be using 700 x 23. Frequently smaller.
>> At 120 PSI. It's just a fact of life in racing clubs. This is
>> target market that does not think like people who use 35 mm tires,
>> tweed bags and high bars. If yo
> Club riders will generally be using 700 x 23. Frequently smaller.
> At 120 PSI. It's just a fact of life in racing clubs. This is
> target market that does not think like people who use 35 mm tires,
> tweed bags and high bars. If you don't know anything about club
> racing, you won't be able
On Aug 29, 2009, at 6:06 AM, JoelMatthews wrote:
> Admittedly, I know very little about club racing dynamics, but I
> expect the majority of people who buy the Roadeo will never use tires
> wider than a 28. At least not when they are with the guys and gals at
> the club. Brifters or no, the bi
> I know it's easy to see the steel and lugs and think "A, Bob Jackson-ish"
> or "Just like my old
> Raleigh Competition," but those aren't the target with this one.
Grant, I follow your points, but this is not at all what started me on
this topic.
The first thing that came to my mind when
Rhode-O-Island
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:28 PM, grant wrote:
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> I think Doug VC got it pretty right---about this being an alternative
> to carbon bikes. It is specifically and intentionally from conception
> to production a club-rider's bike. I know it's easy to see the steel
> and lugs and th
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