Re: Can Too High Gears be Lowered on SRAM Dualdrive?

Peter Clinch <p.j.clinch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Artemisia wrote:
> > Dave Larrington wrote:
> > 
> >> Though you /may/ run out of traction, as I discovered to my cost 2/3
> >> of the way up the Koppenberg a few years ago :-(
> > 
> > How's that - wheels spinning around in place? Would this be because of
> > slippery or muddy roads, or is it a mechanical problem? Could you
regain
> > traction by gearing up and then down again?
> 
> While it's worse on muddy roads, make any road steep enough and the
> wheel will slip, simply a matter of not enough friction.  You could
> change up, but then it might be simply too hard to move the pedals!
> 
the lane nr my folks house as it gets steeper gets worse, more holes and
during winter/spring covered with shale,and well what ever washes off
the hills. so bit of balancing act getting enought traction and so one
can still turn the cranks, still it's not a hill one uses to get from A
to B more for the i'll beat it. heh some of the folk in the village
woun't drive their cars up it. it averages 20% with peaks well into the
30% mark along with nice slippy bits, its great fun attually in a hot
sweaty, why am i doing this? kind of way

> It's worth noting that this is only a problem on /seriously/ steep hills
> (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koppenberg).
 But with muddy tracks
> it's quite easy to run out of traction.  At which point you get off and
> push...
> 
looks fun in a jiggly sort of way.


> Pete.

roger
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