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12-03-04, 11:42 PM
After playing with the seat on my bent (burley limbo) trying to get comfy and get rid of the crack between the seat and back I found something out. I tilted the seat up (before I had tilted the back to get this) and then got the back more towards vertical. Now here is the weird thing. I felt a bit cramped like that (maybe just not used to it?) so I checked the seat distance and it seemed right. Though my knees don’t straighten as much as I am used too. But get this since I got the bike my rpm’s were 10 lower then normal. Even after 15 years off a bike I was right at 80 when I got back on my road bike. But on the bent 70 felt like 80. I had a hard time getting it to 80 and I could not really keep it there.
Now I have been sick off and on since I had the bike so I thought it was that though it was not an issue on the road bike.
But here I am going 80 and it feels normal at that rpm. Plus I was going maybe 2mph faster then I had been slugging along.
I would work harder and not get as winded. Though lately I had only averaged 8.1 to 9.1 mph while sick. Today I got 9.1 but I also went ½ mile longer and that was up hill mostly. And I was dragging an empty trailer behind me. So I guess I was doing better. Plus I wore myself out and slowed down the last part of the ride.
I may try putting the seat back a bit more and see. Maybe tilt it just a bit too. But it was dark and I did not want to mess with it then.
Now I have been sick off and on since I had the bike so I thought it was that though it was not an issue on the road bike.
But here I am going 80 and it feels normal at that rpm. Plus I was going maybe 2mph faster then I had been slugging along.
I would work harder and not get as winded. Though lately I had only averaged 8.1 to 9.1 mph while sick. Today I got 9.1 but I also went ½ mile longer and that was up hill mostly. And I was dragging an empty trailer behind me. So I guess I was doing better. Plus I wore myself out and slowed down the last part of the ride.
I may try putting the seat back a bit more and see. Maybe tilt it just a bit too. But it was dark and I did not want to mess with it then.