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Roadies don't jump the bump?
"Marx SS" wrote in message ... I ride MTBs (1x offroad with knobbies & 1x dunga commuter) , both on & off the black top. Commuting, with the old one with rigid forks & slicks with pretty high tyre pressures, I come across speed humps & little bumps so I kinda bunny hop/jump over them so I don't have to brake & take them too slow, nothing's as bad as losing all that wonderful momentum for a akwardly placed traffic management device. I see other commuter MTB riders usually just eat them up with their suspension etc. Thing is, there's roadies I see about who look & ride full-on professional but wash off heaps just before a slight bump/pot hole/step & ride right through it at a low speed. I thought that hopping over the obstical would be the best thing for it. Road bikes are light & low hopping doesn't mean a massive crash landing as your legs takes the sting out of it. Surely road frames/wheels are OK to take some little hopping about? Are they? Last time I saw a roadie hop over a gutter was some bloke in a green jersey through the backroads of Paris on the tele. -- Marx SS Yes....let's all buckle our rims. Me thinks your from the LBS...business must be a little slow....so your trolling for a stack of freshly bent rims that need to be trued.... |
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Roadies don't jump the bump?
RexelLP10 wrote:
"Marx SS" wrote in message ... I ride MTBs (1x offroad with knobbies & 1x dunga commuter) , both on & off the black top. Commuting, with the old one with rigid forks & slicks with pretty high tyre pressures, I come across speed humps & little bumps so I kinda bunny hop/jump over them so I don't have to brake & take them too slow, nothing's as bad as losing all that wonderful momentum for a akwardly placed traffic management device. I see other commuter MTB riders usually just eat them up with their suspension etc. Thing is, there's roadies I see about who look & ride full-on professional but wash off heaps just before a slight bump/pot hole/step & ride right through it at a low speed. I thought that hopping over the obstical would be the best thing for it. Road bikes are light & low hopping doesn't mean a massive crash landing as your legs takes the sting out of it. Surely road frames/wheels are OK to take some little hopping about? Are they? Last time I saw a roadie hop over a gutter was some bloke in a green jersey through the backroads of Paris on the tele. -- Marx SS Yes....let's all buckle our rims. Me thinks your from the LBS...business must be a little slow....so your trolling for a stack of freshly bent rims that need to be trued.... If you can't make small jumps without buckling rims then either your wheels are crap or you're not doing it right. Good wheels (road or otherwise) are plenty strong enough. (with the obvious exception of lightweight low spoke count race wheels) -- Nick |
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