Moonride '04- Nathan Hoover joins us down-under! - Page 3

pete66 wrote:
> *When it comes to "paved terrain", you really can't keep
> up with cokers on a 24" MUni... at a guess, I'd say that
> the MUni (with 145s) would chug along at about 12km/h but
> the Cokers would cruise along at about 23km/h.*
I think you underestimate the power of short cranks. In the
race, 33 minutes for 7k means I was averaging about 14kph,
including falling off and letting bikes overtake. On paved
ground I can go 20kph or more at my fastest, 15kph is
pretty easy to maintain for long periods of time. On a
Coker 23kph would be just cruising I think. You can go much
faster but when you get flung off you go too fast to run
when you land, so it could lead to a catastrophe. Nathan
Hoover was telling me about one of his friends who put
short cranks on a Coker and wrung it out to about 45kph
just to see how fast he could go, but he was so scared he
didn't want to try it again.

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