DF Bike? Never again

Steve Heywood

Steve Heywood

CTiD
After a year riding bents I decided to take one of my old DF bike out for a short blast. We're at my son's place at Brize Norton near Oxford (UK) cat sitting (even though I'm allergic to the furry monsters) so I took my old bike which I gave to him around the airfield and did around 13 miles... way less than half my daily ride on the S40... My neck and undercarriage were in pieces

Thank goodness I made the switch to bents :)
 
DavidCH

DavidCH

In thought; expanding the paradigm of traversity
Yes.... you get spoilt... but don't go too bent crazy... you need vibration and torment to keep your bones strong. A good mix of mountain biking with bent riding works. As you well know seat bones ache like crazy if you haven't been on the saddle for a month.
 
Frito Bandito

Frito Bandito

Zen MBB Master
I hear ya Steve. I haven't ridden my Litespeed T1 with a TT cockpit since early January and I am not missing it at all. Even that time was painful for the short time I rode it. As a matter of fact I am thinking of selling it as it is, and throw in the road bike bars and shifters. It is a lovely bike, but after 1.5-2 hours I feel like I've been kicked by a herd of donkeys. I'd rather ride my V20 and maybe get osteoporosis instead of riding my T1 anymore DavidCH :p
 
DavidCH

DavidCH

In thought; expanding the paradigm of traversity
I could make it faster by chopping off the drops and adding bar ends so my hands would be in the wind shadow of my legs. But that sounds a bit over the top or does it...?
 
B

bladderhead

Zen MBB Master
Downward pointing bar-ends poke your thighs when you go round corners. Okay for the track, but awful for commuting. Even worse if you have a bar-end shifter.
 
DavidCH

DavidCH

In thought; expanding the paradigm of traversity
It's probably worth trying when the v20 comes out with the viscous damping headset. Otherwise it could end up with another cracked rib
 
Steve Heywood

Steve Heywood

CTiD
Steve Heywood said:
After a year riding bents I decided to take one of my old DF bike out for a short blast. We're at my son's place at Brize Norton near Oxford (UK) cat sitting (even though I'm allergic to the furry monsters) so I took my old bike which I gave to him around the airfield and did around 13 miles... way less than half my daily ride on the S40... My neck and undercarriage were in pieces

Thank goodness I made the switch to bents :)
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I did two laps of the same route this morning so around 23 miles in total ... The saddle contact point became unbearable towards the end. I'll have to invest in a new saddle for my son for next time I come down.. A decent Brooks saddle or something similar, the one that's on it (not my old one) is rock hard!

Or I need to find a way to bring the S40 and investigate bike racks
 
DavidCH

DavidCH

In thought; expanding the paradigm of traversity
I have one of the lightest saddles, man has ever made. There isn't much cushioning. Anything more than 60km... I suffer. I understand the pain. Oddly enough if you have a tight enough skinsuit then the skinsuit actually supports the nether regions quite well, especially if the saddle is correctly angled. I wear a skinsuit too, more often on the v20, as I work out harder and need to cool down more. It's impossible to ride the v20 slow.... it never happens. It's not a sociable machine unless you get a bunch of them together then you can shout above the 70db of wind noise to each other
 
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