Message #19381

[jim-ratliff]

Jim: Where is your man-pride? How can you let Lynn beat you to the top of hills? Although your comment about drafting her up a hill does make some sense. I am on record as saying "I have never found a wheel that I will not suck!" I suspect if you found someone a little bit bigger, the wheel sucking would be better (speaking of getting up the hill, not necessarily the scenery). Just find the bike and rider of the photo you posted, that would be a nice wheel to suck  .

OK, I guess I have to confess that the scenery makes it easy to subjugate my pride.
The interesting race is to the bottom of the hills. On my side is weight and gravity, on her side is a smaller profile cross section and those damn Zipp wheels (above 18 or so they really make a difference). 


More seriously, in order to draft Lynn I have to be down in the drops when she is on the handlebars, and when she drops down there's no way I can stay in her wind shadow.