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Just zis Guy said:At Sun, 5 Jun 2005 11:01:43 -0700, message
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(Tom Keats), including some, all or none of the following:Quoted message said:When a lot of people think about balancing on a bicycle,
they seem to mostly think about left-&-right balancing.
But I'm thinking about the fore-&-aft balancing that comes
into play when riding on slopes -- i.e: the weight placed
on either wheel, which I think can be adjusted with more
subtlety than just by standing.I don't think this comes into play except on the very steepest hills.
It certainly hasn't been an issue for me yet.
Interesting. I find myself shifting my weight to & fro even
on somewhat less acute slopes. If you ever come out to
Vancouver BC, I could show you what I mean, on Collingwood
Street or Ellesmere Street[*] (up Capitol Hill in our
Siamese-twin city of Burnaby.) Of course, some of that
shifting is me scootching /back/ in the saddle, so as to get
a slightly better leg extension and apply more force to the
cranks. In that regard I guess that's like trying to emulate
the recumbent position. It works for a while, but eventually
my front wheel wants more weight on it too.
cheers,
Tom
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