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Trek bikes?
Question:im lookin for a trek bike and im about 6'5 so wat manner should i get i be lookin at the trek 1000 but idk?
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You'll want the largest frame size they offer, and for a guy your size you'll probably call for to swap the stem for a longer / higher rise model, which may require a special instruct.
The most common fitting error next to tall guys is the handlebars are too close and low.
Since you're at the elevated end of the size, definitely dance for the custom fitting, most shops charge for this but will give you a break if you're buying a brand new bike.
All the Treks are fine bikes. Just make sure you close to the shop guys and they will guarantee the fit (let you come back if it doesn't consistency right after a few rides).
Trek 1500 is what cycling club swears by or its nearest matches as within components so go for it. It have Tigra shifting, All Aluminum frame(7000), and is under $800. Wear a helmet and also "Share The Road" Same Roads, Same Rights,Same Rules !
The Trek 1000 and 1500 are both greatly of bang for the buck. I've have a Trek 520 Touring for about 3 years and put something like 12000 miloes a year on it and it's holding up just fine. All the Trek Models come contained by different sizes, check with your marketer for sizing.
Why aren't recumbent bicycles more popular?
Question:They're really interesting bikes, and they're supposedly much faster than a normal bicycle. So why don't more individuals ride them? - I'd love to have a recumbent tandem or sociable.
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The principal reason here are not more popular is that most people simply don't know roughly them. If there be a Major competition in the world that allowed them they would dominate. They are still debarred as having to much of an aerodynamic profit. Faired recumbents have held the world speed transcription for years (currently about 81mph)
They are starting to gain a following since at tiniest one Taiwanese manufacturer have gone into mass production. (tw bents) This has brought the cost of a soaring end apparatus a lot closer to the adjectives version.
They are like mad more common amongst the long distance set since they are more comfy. Maintenance is not really a problem since they use adjectives components. (apart from frame, seat and forks on bikes. Trikes are a different story)
Bike stores don't stock them because here isn't enough constraint.(A classic catch 22) There is a perception that they look a bit daggy. I think this is a short time ago because they are different. My research has found that tadpole trikes certainly rate as looking cool.
People seem to focus on what the champ are riding. Lets face it adjectives bikes are a lot of fun. Most simply don't obtain past this to tender an alternative a go. Others don't want to stand out contained by a crowd. Either way I suggest we will be seeing a lot more on the roads surrounded by the next few years. Here is a opening to get into it previously it gets trendy.
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Looks close to there is a bit of misinformation just about also.
If you scrub out tyres on a trike there is most expected a problem with your alignment and/or ackerman compensation. Or I don`t know you just throwing it around a bit to repeatedly. Most run bmx sized slicks which are reasonably adjectives.
Bent riders usually attack a hill by spinning I make a clean breast this isn't quite as snatched but is more than compensated elsewere.
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Because of their odd shape most society I right with steer away from them. They're sturdy to fix most shops won't sell them and own WAY MORE components on them if they break down. They look cute but getting them fixed is a pain the backside.
It's difficult to climb with it if you can truly can. You can't race it within the grand tours.
They are interesting, and they are conspicuously faster on the flat. Having met a few people commuting and touring on them, and done abundantly of both myself (but only on uprights), here's the pros and cons as I see them:
~ The recline position means your body spends smaller number energy pumping blood against gravity, so you own more energy available for pedalling. Couple this near the more aerodynamic position and recumbents can be hard to hold on to up with, except uphill where on earth their extra weight catch up with them. Recumbent bikes are difficult to steer straight at low speeds.
~ As machines they are inherently safer and more stable than uprights (although you lose the resources to transfer your weight) but within traffic you are less noticeable (especially on trikes), can't easily look surrounded by all directions or over cars, and trikes are wider. Their practicality for commuting depends heavily on the cycling conditions contained by your city.
~ For touring, they give a fantastic armchair belief of the road ahead, are faster on flattish terrain, can be used as lounge chairs at the end of the daytime, and eliminate saddle, collar and shoulder pain. Those low slung trikes bar like go-carts and are sinful to ride. On the downside you can't see the view losing, they are more cumbersome to get on and sour planes/trains/etc or park overnight, demand moderation on climbs, trikes go through (non-standard) front tyres at an alarming rate and can struggle on dirt tracks, your upper body literally inhospitable surroundings away if you don't do anything else, some parts are not stocked in shops, and the riding position can explanation or aggravate lower back problems (but so can an adjectives, just depends on your body). Touring trikes also cost twice as much as regular touring bikes. For me the portability issue is a big one, since touring usually involves hopping on and past its sell-by date all forms of transport and I close to to park the bike in my room overnight, plus I gravitate towards mountainous areas and backroads where on earth they are less pleasant to ride. That's not to read out I'll never buy one, just not on the other hand.
They are not faster than a regular bicycle, although they are very cool. They are much heavier, cannot climb hurriedly, and most importantly do not have the handling propensity that a regular bike does. They are aso not cheap- they start at around $1,000 and go up from nearby.
I'm not against them at all, and I would close to to try one of those low-down three-wheelers! It just looks so freakin' cool!
Go for it. I've have a bent for years, it's not the bike I ride most but is definitely the most comfortable bike I own.
The hill are a real murderer is the main problem, and the handling take some getting used to, but otherwise they're a ton of fun.
As to "why" all I can articulate is fashion is a fickle item. If Lance won the Tour riding a bent, we'd all be on bents.
First sour, they're more expensive. It's hard to find a recumbent for smaller quantity than $800. I suspect that's due to their complexity (longer chain, longer bar, tougher welds, and so on). Also, since there's much smaller amount standardization among recumbents, you can't get stock parts, so that also drives up the price.
Also, they can be more terrifying. Their low profile makes them harder to see by cars and pedestrians.
Finally, they're not what one typically think of when bikes come to mind. Their unconventional shape will be a hurdle for years to come.
Despite the hi-tech side of the bikes themselves, they attract geeky types. They own a multitude of engineering solutions to the problem of going fast while pedaling, comfort and aerodynamics but when riders enjoy to fly an orange flag simply to be visible (the same ones that some kid's bikes have), it kinda cuts down on the coolness factor. Also, profoundly have 2 different reins sizes, non-standard parts and not locally stocked so you can't really test-ride one.
As to why they aren't more popular, it's the "perception" that they are too heavy, climb slow, etc. and next to some designs this certainly is the suitcase. But overall, I think the shortage of standardization is the primary hurdle. If there be a standard platform with both wheel the same size and handling the gearing similiarly afterwards I believe they'd be more tempting for a life-size corporation to start a factory line of them, resembling they currently do with diamond-frame styles. (I'm aware that Trek tried and Cannondale still does but niether really put a big shot into marketing thier respective models).
In addition, the certainty that the UCI banned them years ago really shot them surrounded by the foot. Look at it this way - a guy go in to the shop to purchase a road bike and does he go and get something that will suit his riding style as a new rider, next to somewhat wider but more comfortable tires, wheels next to a "normal" spoke count and a durable frame that will let you fit fenders within case he get caught in the precipitation? Nope. Joe Newbiker gets a carbon fiber wonder near very decrease tires and 16-spoke wheels because that's what Lance (or whomever) rides... the figurine that we constatly get from the medium outlets that reflect reader's buying customs that (more circles). I won't get into the downside of that but approaching a previous poster mentioned if Lance won the TdF on a recumbent the sales would skyrocket.
That said, *I* resembling the fact that recumbents come contained by various configurations and enjoy owned a few. There are some downsides as well and upsides. "Bents are *generally* more expensive because none of the recumbent maker are mass-producing them on the same enormity as most other tradioinal-style bikes. A previous poster mentioned ActionBents, but even better is the Sun EZ-line that is carried by J&B (any bike shop that instructions from J&B can get one). Cool designs, biddable prices, but with some trade-offs.
Recumbents can be designed to be nifty, or can be designed to be comfortable, or can be designed to actually climb as economically as a diamond-frame (check out Bachetta and Hostel Shoppe's high-racers). But making them more popular is what the recumbent makers are trying to integer out.
** disclosure - I sell and ride recumbent trikes **
Recumbents aren't more popular because a smaller amount people know of them. That finances fewer acquire sold, so fewer are made, and you lose the reduction of scale a bike factory contained by China that turns out 10,000 frames a week has.
(very condensed story follows) Recumbents hold been round for decades - the first ell set one was contained by the 1930s, where a cyclist blitzed profusely of Paris races on a home-built one. The French cycling federation eventually prohibited the recumbent design from official race, and as a result no bike manufacturers would bring in them (no racing -> no exposure -> no sales). It's really simply been the closing 25 years or so that manufactures hold built commercial 'bents, despite the fact that they are still not "bikes" according to most cycling bodies.
Unlike what's be stated above, they DON'T have "various more parts", or "many non-standard parts" at adjectives. The frames and some steering components are different it's true, as is the steering, but the cassettes, derailleurs, chainrings, cranks, pedals, brakes, lights, panniers, etc are adjectives generally standard components from the like of Avid, Shimano, SRAM, Sugino, Hope, Rolhoff, Tioga, etc. Tyres are generally BMX sizes, and you can use Schwalbe, Maxxis, Vredestein, Continental etc cheerily. Not all enjoy two different size wheels any.
Also, again unlike what's been said above, they do "do hills". It requirements a different technique to what you do on an upright - you obligation to drop right down in the gears and spin to get hold of up there. once you've mastered the art you can roughly be pretty close to as fast as you are on an adjectives, and because spinning is a much more energy simplified technique you can climb longer hills too. Then blitz your adjectives friends down the other side :-)
WRT relative speeds, a 'bent can be either lightning hurriedly,or a slow cruiser - just similar to regular bikes. Speaking from a trike POV, if you're a good rider on a road bike (and i penny-pinching you're a genuine roadie, riding/racing contained by events, training regularly etc) then a recumbent trike will slow you down slightly. On the other paw, if you ride a regular MTB, or are just a apathetic cyclist on an average bike, a trike will make you faster slightly, once you're used to it. And unsurprisingly, 'bent bikes are generally (but not always) faster than 'bent trikes.
The item that makes 'bents such a nice ride tho is the chairs ergonomics. It's no coincidence that most chairs in the world look approaching recumbent seats, not bike saddle! What I get from my 'bent is not speed, but serenity - I can sit in that form very comfortably for hours at a time - no sore bum, no sore posterior or arms, no stiff neck.
Finally, a recumbent tandem trike is a bliss to tour on. It's like a limo! It take a bit of effort to achieve it up to speed, but once you're at speed it just stays within! The long wheelbase makes for a extraordinarily comfortable ride by absorbing pretty much all bumps, and because you sit within a normal spaces position you look straight ahead naturally - don't own to keep lifting your principal - you get a fantastic panorama all around (and you enjoy mirrors to see behind you). And because it have 3 wheels is extremely stable so you don't enjoy to worry just about balance any. if you get a blowout at elevated speed you just roll to a stop, not flipped over the bar or rolled over a cliff or onto the road.
Can you put a mountain bike rim on a street bike?
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The rear spacing on a road bike is 130mm a mountain bike is 135mm... Nope
The front is 100mm for both... O.K.
The problem would be, would the tires fit between the fork and the stays..? Probably not.
I have to ask why you would want to do that in the first place?
Will going from a 36lb to a 14lb transmute my speed little by little?
Question:I could do 50 Miles (a) 38 kph average speed how much speed will I gain?
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Hi Albert
From the information supplied and assuming your current bike is still in devout condition after the 480 miles a week you put on it (previous question).Im also assuming that these figures are solo hard work.
Your average power output is around 310 watts(for greater than 2 hours.)
dropping 22lbs will increase your speed climbing a steep hill by around 10% ( 10-12% grade)
Your average speed will increase by less than 2 km/h the explanation for this is that at 38 km/h wind resistance accounts for 80-85% of your power.
You are riding at relatively a high standard. Assuming that you are around 20 years of age (based on your tag), you should be trying to capture into a team. They will instruct you the finer points of the sport.
HAS ANYBODY GOT A TEAM FOR THIS MAN ?
I don't make sense of your request for information. Are you talking give or take a few changing from a 36lbs bike to a 14lbs one will trade name you faster?
If that's your question, not necesarily. Well, probably you would be switching from a mountain bike to a road bike or something approaching that. How your components work is very far-reaching, not just bike shipment, also, if you're lightweight, those lbs. you loose will help, if you're heavier, they won't gross that much difference.
A lighter bike? Maybe. I think the engineering and condition of the bike is more substantial as the weight. Light bikes are nice, but they're not tricks. You might not see any difference.
you mean you can average 23.6mph for over 2hrs on a 38lb bike?
I doubt it.
Also - a heavier bike rolls on the flat longer easier because a body surrounded by motion tends to stay within motion...i still think you're a lying piece of sh*t though
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