atlas_shrugged wrote:This makes me think that any light, frictionless, and simple technique for making a bike glide over the boulders that our UK roads have become will provide a big speed advantage.
You’ve just described fat, supple tyres!
atlas_shrugged wrote:This makes me think that any light, frictionless, and simple technique for making a bike glide over the boulders that our UK roads have become will provide a big speed advantage.
Similar wheel sizes / tyre section ?atlas_shrugged wrote:I ride a recumbent (~20mph) and in winter a conventional hybrid (~15mph).
[XAP]Bob wrote:On an upeightbisnt that done by taking more weight on the pedals.. pretty sure some bents have ‘seat’ suspension don’t they?
Samuel D wrote:You’ve just described fat, supple tyres!
Brucey wrote:However what is less obvious is that just pedalling hard tends to excite a type a) resonance and this tends to absorb energy all the time, even when the suspension has little or no work to do. Hence my earlier comments about needing to pedal in a specific fashion. I have yet to meet a rider that could pedal smoothly at 10/10ths aerobic effort up a draggy climb without bobbing like crazy on a suspension bike, which is why lockouts were invented. On many suspension bikes without lockout, trying to ride out of the saddle is basically a complete waste of time.