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- From: chris@carnival.lbl.gov (Chris Moll)
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
- Subject: Re: MTBs as racers
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 18:17:32 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, California
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- jrdodd@waikato.ac.nz (Jonathan) writes:
- > One day a guy came out
- >on a Bauer MTB with slicks and aerobars. He had no trouble keeping up and his
- >aero bars were well-used when riding at the front.
- ...
- > It could be a good idea to but some
- >drops on (a la Tomac) and to try that out.
-
- I put drop bars on my MTB as an experiment (for off-road riding). Then,
- when the rainy season started here, I put on slick tires just for the
- hell of it.
-
- My riding position was almost the same as on my road bike, but I didn't like
- it. The bike fell heavy and sluggish. For some reason the steering felt
- slow yet unstable; it was harder to maintain a straight course than on my
- quick-steering road bike. I could keep up with the road bikes, but I didn't
- enjoy it. I was under-geared; I got a lot of use out of the 46-12.
-
- It was a relief to go back to my foul-weather road bike, even though it weighs
- almost as much as the MTB.
-
- --
- Chris Moll (510)486-7891
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