Originally Posted by
Johno59
I drafted a guy yesterday on my 40 yo steel flat pedal winter hack. We sat on 25 mph into a headwind
His bike full carbon, disc brakes electronic shifters and a crank power meter. My bike cost 50 bucks his near enough to 10,000 dollars.
Did you have to Drope the hamer?
Seriously though I understand what you mean. I have noticed though my w/kg is higher using one of my old steel bikes compared to the carbon bike in group rides but I think that is only because of greater effort to get the same speed.