bike handling (road specific)

Does STI lower handling skills?

Since switching over to the P-mount i'm back to 1986 with downtube shifters. They ain't bad. sure you can't flick with your fingers but! you gotta be more aware of you handling skills and all that...

is that why grabbing a bottle for some kids is such a hair raising experience for those behind them?

you shift far more than ya drink from the bottle generally

Anyway - just one of the random thoughts floating through my head this morning.

I had planned to head through the new way but they closed the underpass and i was forced back on the old way...

And... the bigger gear range means more force... so, me thinking time to go back to working on Torque more than power now... the diesel motor's getting rusty maybe? That and i was thinking highest torque is always on hills... so why not artificially stick with the 50 tooth instead of always hanging in a 38 or 39 tooth ring and boost the values that way? At least for a little while, build that side of the equation back up... jump back to the cross bike (as commuter) to amp the spin occasionally... Just thoughts... Legs are pretty sore. Big force combined with really no day off since the big race (monday was an easy ride in but still not a rest day)... Looking forward to not getting on the bike this weekend (well my legs are, i might still get out with the girls - we'll see).

That and pulling away from day care on the bike thinking "Most people drop their kids off in an SUV at day care... I'm dropping them off in a bike trailer..."

respect
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Oh and i'm gonna link dump piggy back on Big Jonny about Grewal and Coors, Tea and doping in the '80s.... good read!