April 18, 2024 Login  


Unanswered Active Topics Forums Search
Forums > Road > Gear Advice
Geometry advice
Last Post 07/22/2020 02:19 PM by Orange Crush. 17 Replies.
Printer Friendly
Sort:
PrevPrev NextNext
You are not authorized to post a reply.
Page 2 of 2 << < 12
Author Messages
longslowdistance

Posts:2881

--
07/22/2020 11:42 AM
Bodies change over time. Familial tremor, for example, becomes apparent only with age.
79pmooney

Posts:3180

--
07/22/2020 12:30 PM
I can get the wobblies on my geared TiCycles. Very related to my confidence and warmth. Generally getting worse as I age but the worst case was years ago on a cold organized ride in the Bull Run area east of Portland. Steep, rough, unknown hills, wet pavement. I crawled down some of those hills.

Now I fairly often go down Bald Peak Road coming home. Fast, very good pavement, near straight, good visibility with spots that are steep. I've never looked at my speed but it's a 50 mph hill if the wind is right and I have the guts. (I hit 49+ on its sister a mile away. Steeper, yes, but Bald Peak can get a favoring tailwind and be simply fast!!) I now bring extra clothes up the 2000' or so of climbing just to be warm for that hill, Makes it so much more fun. I've also found the more weight on the handlebars, weight further forward helps. In other words, the old racing tuck.

Zinn's write-up yesterday was enlightening. Steeper head angles being a factor, that he designs bikes with shallower HT angles, shorter TTs and stiffer tubing. I go for fit with long TTs and steep HT angles. I also love bikes that keep me awake and steer around stuff, even no-hands, easily and quickly. My ti bikes do have pretty stiff TTs. Big diameter does that. It's interesting that my Fuji Pro had not especially stiff tubing, fairly long TT, bottom bracket scraping the clouds, chainstays barely long enough to get training tubulars in and a very steep HT angle and I had no issue with the wobblies. (It did have a young, near fearless rider that trusted it completely)

The Wobblies. They're back. Not very organized (yet) but disrupting rides every chance they get.

Ben
Orange Crush

Posts:4499

--
07/22/2020 02:19 PM
Posted By Frederick Jones on 07/22/2020 11:42 AM
Bodies change over time. Familial tremor, for example, becomes apparent only with age.


Roger that
You are not authorized to post a reply.
Page 2 of 2 << < 12
Forums > Road > Gear Advice
Active Forums 4.1
NOT LICENSED FOR PRODUCTION USE
www.activemodules.com

Latest Forum Posts
Flanders (and Roubaix) posted in Professional Racing
Anyone have fun bike projects going? posted in The Coffee Shop
so quiet posted in The Coffee Shop
Hot Stove League posted in Professional Racing
Rohan Dennis charged in death of his wife posted in Professional Racing
compare Cycling icons with icons in other sports posted in Off-Topic
Parc des Princes Veldrome posted in Professional Racing
No articles match criteria.
  Terms and Conditions | Privacy Policy  Copyright 2008-2013 by VeloNation LLC