[CR]Re: "Q" and other mythology.

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Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 16:01:51 +0000 (UTC)
From: <billydavid13@comcast.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Re: "Q" and other mythology.

Greetings, all. Just to clarify. I don't believe that clinchers are faster than tubulars, that just seems to be the prevailing mythology. My guru in a ll things technical, Jan Heine, makes good arguments for sewups being faste r in BQ and i buy them. My point is that despite all the hype and measureme nts purporting to show clinchers being faster, racers "vote w/ their feet" by choosing tubulars. {I acknowledge Fred's point about tubulars not coming
   off the rim, of course.} Cycling like everything in the real world is a co mplex activity and it is hard to reduce to a single factor be it rolling re sistance, Q, aerodynamic drag or whatever. Don't get me wrong i think it is
   important to try to quantify these things. It's just that they don't alway s add up in asimple linear way. What i like best about BQ is Jan's attempt to bring real world experience, "feel" if you will, into the argument. Bill y Ketchum; Chicago [ where it's a gorgeous fall day and I'm going to ride m y Holdsworth to Hyde Park], IL; USA.