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Old 06-21-10, 07:46 PM
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Originally Posted by grolby
More likely a variation on this, which is still pushing DOWN at the bottom of the stroke, which causes you to rise up which unweights the rear wheel which causes skipping. Pulling up too hard in the middle of a sprint is all but impossible; the downstroke is so many times more forceful that it's more likely to be causing a problem. In any case, pedal stroke is a real possibility.
+1. Waterrockets wrote a pretty good explanation of this in another rear wheel skipping thread. Worth looking up if the search engine worked.
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