Lazmo
Old and hopeless
Okee Dokee Kona ride number two.
Did a solo lap of lysty, and although I had fun, particularly on the downs, wahoo and my hrm show clearly that my new bike is very slow uphill, pretty slow even on the flats/slight rises, slightly faster downhill, and my heartrate was way up, most of the time, compared with solo laps on my stumpy.
Loved the precision of the steering, jumped dog pound like a mofo and it lands jumps way better with no flexing. I'd moved the dropper lever next to the grip so I didn't have to take my hand off to use the dropper, and I'd swapped in my stumpy seat with more setback so it felt better sizewise.
BUT... I've gotta fix the climbing. It's running minions with tubes front 2.5 and rear 2.3, and I think they may be the problem, not sure though, but I feel like I'm riding through treacle even on the flats, uphill is worse. My stumpy has nobby nic front 2.25 and rocket ron rear 2.10 running low pressure tubeless and compared, climbs like a mofo. The new bike is over a couple of kg heavier, which was expected, but the treacle effect was not. I'm thinking of trying an appropriate sized nic/ron combo, just to see. That and no tubes should lose some weight and hopefully help (a lot) with rolling resistance. Maybe even a racing ralph on the rear to help things along even more.
Anyway, anything going downward was awesome.
Did a solo lap of lysty, and although I had fun, particularly on the downs, wahoo and my hrm show clearly that my new bike is very slow uphill, pretty slow even on the flats/slight rises, slightly faster downhill, and my heartrate was way up, most of the time, compared with solo laps on my stumpy.
Loved the precision of the steering, jumped dog pound like a mofo and it lands jumps way better with no flexing. I'd moved the dropper lever next to the grip so I didn't have to take my hand off to use the dropper, and I'd swapped in my stumpy seat with more setback so it felt better sizewise.
BUT... I've gotta fix the climbing. It's running minions with tubes front 2.5 and rear 2.3, and I think they may be the problem, not sure though, but I feel like I'm riding through treacle even on the flats, uphill is worse. My stumpy has nobby nic front 2.25 and rocket ron rear 2.10 running low pressure tubeless and compared, climbs like a mofo. The new bike is over a couple of kg heavier, which was expected, but the treacle effect was not. I'm thinking of trying an appropriate sized nic/ron combo, just to see. That and no tubes should lose some weight and hopefully help (a lot) with rolling resistance. Maybe even a racing ralph on the rear to help things along even more.
Anyway, anything going downward was awesome.