View Single Post
Old 08-06-07, 09:30 AM
  #16  
BSLeVan
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: S.E. Pennsylvania, USA
Posts: 1,737
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Originally Posted by tntom
I have a 2008 Giant FCR1. It is a 9 speed. 2 frount sprockets 50t and 34t. 9 rear from 11t to 28t. How fast can my bike go? I have been told it will be slow. And that it will be fast. What is the truth. I have been 25mph and I know I am slow. Will the bike go faster than that. If this is a dumb question I am sorry.
Tom
I'm curious who told you it would be slow. It seems to me that others have said, in numerous ways, that the person pedaling the bike has a great deal to do with ultimate speed. Still others have directed you toward ways of calculating speed when in a given gear at a given cadence. As I read your post, I couldn't help but wonder who told you it would be slow and why they would do that. My sometimes cynical thinking comes up with a few possibilities:

The person who said it would be slow:

1. Is an idiot and knows not of what they speak

2. Is a sales person who wants to sell you a new bike

3. Is an insecure person and wants you to feel inferior to them and their "fast bike".
BSLeVan is offline