Cure for my hillclimbing problems

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01-27-06 | 01:41 PM

CardiacKid

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Cure for my hillclimbing problems

There is this one hill that just eats my lunch every time I go up it. Not anymore. I got one of these.

01-27-06 | 01:48 PM

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The left brake lever regulates the flow of nitrous and throttles the rocket.

So no front brakes, then? Well, I guess you don't need them on a time trial or an uphill finish.

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01-27-06 | 01:56 PM

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There is this one hill that just eats my lunch every time I go up it.

Put a lot of hot sauce in it. Works everytime.

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01-27-06 | 03:08 PM

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01-27-06 | 03:12 PM

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01-27-06 | 03:25 PM

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After you get launched off that ramp that you called a hill at 60mph, how are you going to land on your road bike?

01-27-06 | 03:42 PM

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I have a Clydesdale friend who told me he dropped one of those last weekend on a 12% grade while riding an underinflated MTB.

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01-27-06 | 04:44 PM

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There is a video of the rocket bike floating around the net somewhere. His 0-60 time was pretty impressive, but his top speed wasn't great (slower than those guys who draft racing cars on the Bonneville Salt Flats).

01-27-06 | 06:37 PM

crackerjab

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I've got a friend in the Navy who drives one of those... Only it has wings... and is called airplane.

Think about cranking that baby up on a down hill slope.

01-27-06 | 09:42 PM

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I smell a Darwin award coming...

01-27-06 | 10:37 PM

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Just set it for 400 pounds per square inch, turn around and give them the look and in about 1/100th of a second you are dropping a poseur at 19.2 feet per second per second.

01-27-06 | 11:30 PM

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01-27-06 | 11:34 PM

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I smell a Darwin award coming...

... and then I dialed my power meter up to 40,000 watts...

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01-28-06 | 08:11 AM

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Now there's an answer to a question nobody asked...

At that point, why not a motorcycle? Many of them can go 0-60 faster than that, but have brakes and handling designed for those speeds and loads.

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01-28-06 | 12:25 PM

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Boredom................what else! Why not do this if you have the time and work on rockets anyway. That would be nice to have in a smaller package for that last sprint and your out of gas!

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01-28-06 | 12:36 PM

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That would make a great fixie conversion. Would do wonders for your cadence.