Is Retro faster?

[Woz]

60mph and a 66 tooth chainring: http://www.switchbackmagazine-digital.c ... &fs=1#pg29

Is there a pro event and a pro DH bike today that hits 60mph and fitted with a 66 tooth chainring? If not, then yes, retro is faster.

 

[mattr]

Think the record for a dh run is about double that now.

But competitions like that have been banned for years.

 

[Woz]

Think the record for a dh run is about double that now.

But competitions like that have been banned for years.

Serious? 120 mph in an off-road event :!:

 

[mattr]

Eric Barone, riding down a volcano. About as safe as the kamikaze was. Event might be pushing it, but it's the nearest recent thing that's anything like the kamikaze.

Someone was going to die doing the kamikaze eventually.

I've heard that the top speeds in the red bull road rage are in excess of 70mph. But not particularly convinced.

 

[Woz]

This chap - Janos Köhler http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI3UNU_n50U

 

[wookiee]

Re:

....retro may be faster but modern gives me more confidence so I ride faster as I fear less!

 

[mattr]

This chap - Janos Köhler http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI3UNU_n50U

Isn't that the one with loads of GPS spikes giving the false top speed?

Edit:- Yes it is. Page 4 on this thread, someone reviewed the GPS data.
http://weightweenies.starbike.com/forum ... 3&t=122386
And now its been deleted from Strava.

 

[sickpup]

Motorcycle forums:
"I beat such and such MV/Ducati/BMW on my GT550 wif me courier bag on and all"

As a 20 year courier who has also been a service manager and now controls emergency transfusion blood movements the chances are the couriers are telling the truth.

Quite often experience counts for a lot.

 

[ultrazenith]

Going back to the modern vs retro braking discussion: I did a 40 km marathon the other week, and it seems to have been the case that instead of being outbraked by modern riders, I was in fact entering technical sections a little too fast due to my inferior brakes...

Several people in my club are now riding budget 29 or 650bers, which I find tempting at the current RRP: 430 gbp for a Specialized Hardrock 29er, 250 gbp for a Berg 650b (both weighing ~31 lb). What I'm now pondering is this: how good/light does a 29er need to be, in order to be 'faster' than a decent, lightweight retro bike? My guess is that you'd need to spend about a grand to be sure you're not foregoing the benefits of 29" wheels by lugging 3 or 4 extra kilos around?

 

[Chopper the ex Copper]

Wait until it's wet and those huge hoops are clagged with mud. It'll weigh quite a bit more then. That mass then slows the steering response even further, just to really kick you in the balls.