A question about bicycle weights and physical weight
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This thread is making the people of South Carolina look bad.
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It depends. Is the 40 pound bike a recumbent?
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But don't you get a better workout on the 40# bicycle?
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Yes, 40lb bike woukd always be faster as long as you are riding downhill, So make sure you always travel downhills and always call someone for a ride back home
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IMO... You might get just as good a workout if you are only going to ride for a short time, say about an hour give or take 30 minutes.
But this assumes a person riding for fitness that is maybe a little bit of a adrenaline junkie and is doing a hard effort for their rides. With either bike they are going to get the same workout since they will essentially be near their limits of what they can sustain.
Even for a person just out for a ride casually, it might be the same too, just because the ride parameters will be based on the amount of exertion they wish to do.
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I don't think so.
IMO... You might get just as good a workout if you are only going to ride for a short time, say about an hour give or take 30 minutes.
But this assumes a person riding for fitness that is maybe a little bit of a adrenaline junkie and is doing a hard effort for their rides. With either bike they are going to get the same workout since they will essentially be near their limits of what they can sustain.
IMO... You might get just as good a workout if you are only going to ride for a short time, say about an hour give or take 30 minutes.
But this assumes a person riding for fitness that is maybe a little bit of a adrenaline junkie and is doing a hard effort for their rides. With either bike they are going to get the same workout since they will essentially be near their limits of what they can sustain.
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It depends. What you said really assumes the rider will always put in the same effort regardless of bike or for that matter any other parameters. However, let's say I want to sustain a certain speed on flats like say 17mph and want to get there, but have no desire to go faster. In that case, the heavier bike will be a greater workout.
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A vast number of threads on this forum would make everyone think that speed is the holy grail of cycling. I contend it is not. I say that the vast majority of cyclist just ride for the enjoyment of the ride. We just like to be out in the open air, enjoy the sites, and or run errands. We dont ride high priced bikes, or dress in high priced kits. We dont care about form, position, cadence or any of that, we just enjoy the kind of riding we like.
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It depends. What you said really assumes the rider will always put in the same effort regardless of bike or for that matter any other parameters. However, let's say I want to sustain a certain speed on flats like say 17mph and want to get there, but have no desire to go faster. In that case, the heavier bike will be a greater workout.
Here's the larger point: the determinant of the quality of the workout is the rider's effort, not the quality of the bike. You can get a lousy or great workout on a heavy bike or a light bike or anything in between.
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Example. I buy a 40 pound bike and I buy a 20 pound bike at 190 pounds. Okay, all things equal, the 20 pound bike should be faster.
But let's say I lost 20 pounds and went down to 170 pounds but kept the same muscle mass. Would the 40 pound bike be as fast as the 20 pound bike was when I was 20 pounds heavier?
Not that I am either of those things but just was wondering...
But let's say I lost 20 pounds and went down to 170 pounds but kept the same muscle mass. Would the 40 pound bike be as fast as the 20 pound bike was when I was 20 pounds heavier?
Not that I am either of those things but just was wondering...
If you ride enough to lose twenty pounds, that riding will make you stronger and you will be faster on any bike you ride no matter what it weighs, you will be faster on both the 20 and 40 pound bikes, and since everyone is different the test results will be different. I suggest you get 20 and 40 pound bikes and run this test for us, and when you have lost 20 pounds report back here. See you in the fall.
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Power to overcome rolling resistance increases linearly with velocity and total weight.
Frr = g * (Mbike + Mcyclist) * Crr
Prr = Frr * V
Where:
- Frr = rolling resistance force (N)
- g = gravity acceleration (9.8 m/s^2)
- Mbike = mass of bike (kg)
- Mcyclst = mass of rider (kg)
- Crr = coefficient of rolling resistance (dimensionless)
- Prr = power to overcome rolling resistance
- V = bike+rider velocity
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What about inertia any time you want to accelerate?
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If the lost weight is fat which was at the extremes of the rider's waistline, wouldn't that lower the rider's moment of inertia around corners?
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Yes it does. You can also initiate a turn without counter steering by shifting that excess weight from one side of your waist to the other. (But, you can only do it if you're wearing shorts, not bib shorts.) Emoji.