Single Speed Riders - Help Required!
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Wold Ranger
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Depends on what Tyres are going to be run! HP 700c are a World apart from 26 inch 2.1 knobblies, where both rolling resistance and wind resistance are major efficiency sapping factors. If you ride on narrow 1 inch slicks, it then beggers the question about riding on an MTB on the road? May as well just go roadie?
Depends on what Tyres are going to be run! HP 700c are a World apart from 26 inch 2.1 knobblies, where both rolling resistance and wind resistance are major efficiency sapping factors. If you ride on narrow 1 inch slicks, it then beggers the question about riding on an MTB on the road? May as well just go roadie?
one-eyed_jim
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To be honest it hadn't really crossed my mind that anyone would set out on fat knobblies to do a 60 mile road ride. I can think of plenty of reasons to put slicks (fat or thin) on an mtb - I do it all the time - but 60 road miles on tractor tyres smacks of perversity.Wold Ranger":1uyh38nn said:
A note on Ditchling - it's a cheeky little hill for sure, but the hard bit is that you'll be riding it with (and I haven't checked precise numbers for this year so this is an estimate) approximately fourteen billion other riders at the same time.
Of those on the hill at the same time as you, 3 will be able to go up it without bouncing off both the grass verges (simultaneously); 1 person will be walking up with the same make and model as your long-lost first "proper" bike and you'll be torn between stopping and chatting to them and continuing the grind towards the top; several hundred will be walking up the middle of the road, side by side, looking behind them for Joan from accounts; thousands more will be telling them to walk at the side of the road as they overtake on both sides, and a courier will Switzerland Squeak past on a fixie tandem with 4" bars.
So what I'm saying is enjoy the ride for the festival of cycling that it is but don't make the hill the focal point because if you get two thirds of the way up it and some twunt stops right in front of you because they forgot to turn the pedals it's really going to ruin your day.
Cake at the bottom in the garden and ice cream at the top. It's the only way.
Of those on the hill at the same time as you, 3 will be able to go up it without bouncing off both the grass verges (simultaneously); 1 person will be walking up with the same make and model as your long-lost first "proper" bike and you'll be torn between stopping and chatting to them and continuing the grind towards the top; several hundred will be walking up the middle of the road, side by side, looking behind them for Joan from accounts; thousands more will be telling them to walk at the side of the road as they overtake on both sides, and a courier will Switzerland Squeak past on a fixie tandem with 4" bars.
So what I'm saying is enjoy the ride for the festival of cycling that it is but don't make the hill the focal point because if you get two thirds of the way up it and some twunt stops right in front of you because they forgot to turn the pedals it's really going to ruin your day.
Cake at the bottom in the garden and ice cream at the top. It's the only way.
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Kestonian":22qhu1it said:
Shall be doing it 42 or 44 x 18 on slick 26'' wheels.
If that means walking the hill then so be it - hope not to be though :twisted:
Wold Ranger":22qhu1it said:
I'll PM you my NI & NHS numbers
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Just do it 56 x 11 on a fixed track bike and u don't need bother with any brakes either, then U'll finish about 4 or 5 hours in front of everyone else
Just do it 56 x 11 on a fixed track bike and u don't need bother with any brakes either, then U'll finish about 4 or 5 hours in front of everyone else
