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When you are climbing you are going slowly anyway. A bit more effort equates to a bit more speed. Linear relationship. When you are descending, the turbulence suddenly shoots up into the high numbers, so more watts equals more wind not more speed. With my impaired aerobic efficiency, it takes...

Abso bloody lutely. Cruzbikes at (decreasing) Speed.

I do not need a fibreglass belly.

I did not know it was that kind of forum. I have had a sheltered life.

You are right, I do not notice myself countersteering. But I still do not understand why, if steering inertia is such a problem, it is not a problem for me. I wish I could try a Balor-type bike, just to feel the difference.

What Larry said. In his pictures you can see the boom is almost horizontal. Yours is a lot steeper. Your BB must be really low. Long chainstay will cure this.

Before I learnt to get away from a standing start, I could not get away from a standing start. Now I can, no trouble. You will get it.

On the huge wall in front of me are inscribed four letters: COPD.

I have a Silvio, which may be a bit easier than a V. I am a mid-footer, so my effective x-seam is short. I cut the boom. I have a single chainwheel so my BB is lighter than usual. So I have decreased the steering inertia a bit. But I do not experience any wobbles or twitchiness. From 0mph...

I have reached the point where I feel the bike fits me really well, and it has been ages since I wanted to change anything. This is fortunate, because some of the junk (jewellery) consists of past iterations of handlebars and brakes and BBs, to which I have not added for some time. Some of the...

My shed is wrapped around a huge ball of junk, with two letterbox-shaped holes for my bikes. What happens if a hoarder gets n+1 disease?

Pain in the bum, actually.

Most of my mileage is on the S but I am keeping the G.

Really? Are you MAD? How can anybody ride a bike like that? Get double clangers like everyone else.

Yes. That is my experience. But for some reason I do not like to get off the bike. Yes. I can understand tyres, but what effect do different surfaces have on gears? Once upon a time it was racers, tourers, shoppers and district-nurse. The racers and tourers had Weinmann brakes with downtube...

Road and mountain. Yes, I have had that nervous breakdown. Bar-end is simple? I wanted a friction shifter. I have a single chainwheel. I got a pair of shifters. The cog one had a lever-throw of about 270 degrees but it was 10sp indexing. The chainwheel one was friction type but the...

I believe that to be the case. Luckily I was not badly injured. Just a little rash.

My friction shifter does not pull enough slack for XX1.

I agree with Pollock. Thanks for that info. Sounds like a brilliant idea. I wish you had told me about it before I got Tannus on my Grasshopper. I have had several front flats on my Silvio, and always maintained control. Except once, when both tyres exploded at once. Two big bangs. Tyres...

I have XX1 cog and derailleur and a friction shifter, between which is a Shiftmate. Works well. They say that the radius of curvature of the pulley is too small so it causes the cable to split. This happened to me once. It did not snap suddenly. I felt the shifting going weird so I had time...