bballe336 said:Last years team jerseys and shorts were so much nicer.
You can't tell me that you didn't think electric blue was the most awesome jersey color ever.partsbara said:thats why you guys will never be as fast as the aussies... you care more about how you look...
I thought last year's kit was hideous, I prefer less flashy gear...bballe336 said:You can't tell me that you didn't think electric blue was the most awesome jersey color ever.
either that or because Australians get real support and actually have coaches for gravity racers, but you know whatever...it could be the fashion thing....partsbara said:thats why you guys will never be as fast as the aussies... you care more about how you look...
Really? Seems on a WC course that wouldn't work too well but who the hell am I to judge?ska todd said:Sam has been running 34T & 36T rings this season w/ 11-21/23T roadie cassettes.
-ska todd
Bicyclist said:Really? Seems on a WC course that wouldn't work too well but who the hell am I to judge?
36x11 is a pretty fair size gear still.........plus after a while it's faster just to tuck and not pedal.Bicyclist said:They're frikken fast. Picture riding down a wide open course at pro speed, but w/ a 36t ring. Seems like you'd get spun out.
I thought it was because of increased durabilityS.K.C. said:so they used the Air mainly to save weight.
Come over to Australia during our summer, for the national series, and see exactly what "real support" the riders here get. It's summed up in the following points:Rye_Bread said:either that or because Australians get real support and actually have coaches for gravity racers, but you know whatever...it could be the fashion thing....
hunger...thaflyinfatman said:Come over to Australia during our summer, for the national series, and see exactly what "real support" the riders here get. It's summed up in the following points:
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There's F all here... the fast guys get stuff cheap from a distributor/importer/shop usually, and that's generally it unless they manage to get sponsorship from overseas.
i ran a 38/12 at saint-anne. when it spun out i just tucked, at those speeds and especially on rough sections it's way faster than pedaling. as long as you have the right gear for pedaling out of corners you can get away with a pretty small chainring.Bicyclist said:They're frikken fast. Picture riding down a wide open course at pro speed, but w/ a 36t ring. Seems like you'd get spun out.
and at the course to be used for this years worlds, which is not smooth.S.K.C. said:The DHX Air was only used for Sea Otter where you could get away with it b/c the course was so smooth - so they used the Air mainly to save weight.
Banga said:and at the course to be used for this years worlds, which is not smooth.
Basically, you divide your chainring size by the rear gear (in this case, the hardest one). That gives the gear ratio, or how much bigger your front ring is than your cog. A bigger gear ratio = a harder gear. The torque/acceleration aspect is the same as shifting in the back: a harder gear will have the same effect no matter what. Gear inches factor in wheel size, so on a mountain bike assuming the rear wheel is 26" you don't have to worry about that.S.K.C. said:...O.K. - I don't know me rectum from a hole in the ground when it comes to gearing, determining ratios, etc - could someone give a brief refresher here?
Todd - what did you just post?
How do you figure out what gear ratio will give more speed?
Quicker acceleration?
Require more torque?
leprechaun said:I wish it was all about cornering for me too but i need to have fintess for pedaling out of the corner i just blew...
i m fast on the way to the cake shopsayndesyn said:I'm not so much about the corner speed as I am not about the straight away speed.
davetrump said:ever hear of a thing called product testing?
lots of riders run different setups in the winter to see what works and doesn't. air shocks were all over the best racers bikes this winter for that reason (fabian barel had one on for the first two maxxis cup races, etc).
the only way to see how stuff works in a race situation is to use it in a race... on a real course.
ouside of 4x you would bw hard pressed to find an air shock on anyones dh bike at the world cup level right now.
DHsloth said:Maybe that's why Sam can drift with pedalling so well in corners. Because it is easier to pedal with that gearing and quicky accerate out of those turns...