Cycling questions

[durulz]

Applause to Harry, in post 19, for finding and reviving a 3 1/2 year old thread

Oh yeah. Doh!

[Tadpole]

Helmet every time, who care what you look like? Who cares if it looks cool? Who cares if it’s a faf to carry? Don’t wear one and it will the ones who you leave behind when you are dead, and that is if you are lucky. If you are not so lucky it will be the ones caring for you as you slumber in a PVS.

[harryhaller]

Applause to Harry, in post 19, for finding and reviving a 3 1/2 year old thread

The golden rule for cyclists should be the same for our threads - be seen!

and claim back the word BIKE from the motocyclists, who have stolen it from us!

[Minotaur]

No need for me here though.

Must be nice. Here I want one of those yellow flashing lights, the repairers use on motorways, and that is in the day time. At night, I want a steel shell!

You have never seen cyclocross I guess? The first serious competitions in down hill were won by a guy with dropbars (and discwheel!). What do you mean by paying attention? I can bike with no hands with no problems. And when I'm on the hoods, I'm very relaxed.

Never seen them use drops. All of my early cycling was with drops, then I started using mountain bikes. My old bike had a short bar, with 90 degree hand grips, and a U shaped bar in the centre was great. Really want to replace it.

I find the hood really comfortable, it is the sudden stop of the road that hurts.

The bikes in holland are basically the same as the standard bike here (kronan are very common in holland for instance). If you have a badly fitted bike you will loose a lot in effiency. Comfort is the key to speed.

The bikes almost all of them, I saw were these road/mountain style with a covered chain, and three internal gears. Amazing to ride, for someone with bike skills, especially with their roads.

Recumbents use derailleurs, at least those I have seen. Usually some XTR or XT group. I use all of my gears. Some more some less. The truth is that most people are very bad cyclists. The body is most efficient with a constant high cadence, choose gears to get the speed you want, or to the strain.

I must fail into that, because I stay in highest almost all the time. That said it is start stop riding here on the roads so might explain it. All the recumbents builds I have seen use the internals.

Yeah right, with a two cross patterned 36 spoked wheel there is virtually no chance for that to happen, you've got be very fat and wreckless cyclist for that to happen. I haven't trued my wheels since I built them some odd years back. And not even after some weeks of quite heavy touring on bad roads there were any tendencies of untrueness.

My training and competition bike has 18 spoked and 24 spoked wheels and 19 mm tubulars, haven't been necessary with any truing there either.

Interesting, my racer wheels were buckled by the wind it seemed at times. My mountain wheels are better but still with our roads/traffic they still get done. Drains are my favorite!