Roadies don't jump the bump?

"Marx SS" wrote in message
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I ride MTBs (1x offroad with knobbies & 1x dunga commuter) , both on &
off the black top. Commuting, with the old one with rigid forks &
slicks with pretty high tyre pressures, I come across speed humps &
little bumps so I kinda bunny hop/jump over them so I don't have to
brake & take them too slow, nothing's as bad as losing all that
wonderful momentum for a akwardly placed traffic management device.

I see other commuter MTB riders usually just eat them up with their
suspension etc.

Thing is, there's roadies I see about who look & ride full-on
professional but wash off heaps just before a slight bump/pot hole/step
& ride right through it at a low speed.
I thought that hopping over the obstical would be the best thing for
it. Road bikes are light & low hopping doesn't mean a massive crash
landing as your legs takes the sting out of it. Surely road
frames/wheels are OK to take some little hopping about?
Are they?

Last time I saw a roadie hop over a gutter was some bloke in a green
jersey through the backroads of Paris on the tele.


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Marx SS


Yes....let's all buckle our rims. Me thinks your from the LBS...business
must be a little slow....so your trolling for a stack of freshly bent rims
that need to be trued....

RexelLP10 wrote:
"Marx SS" wrote in message
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I ride MTBs (1x offroad with knobbies & 1x dunga commuter) , both on &
off the black top. Commuting, with the old one with rigid forks &
slicks with pretty high tyre pressures, I come across speed humps &
little bumps so I kinda bunny hop/jump over them so I don't have to
brake & take them too slow, nothing's as bad as losing all that
wonderful momentum for a akwardly placed traffic management device.

I see other commuter MTB riders usually just eat them up with their
suspension etc.

Thing is, there's roadies I see about who look & ride full-on
professional but wash off heaps just before a slight bump/pot hole/step
& ride right through it at a low speed.
I thought that hopping over the obstical would be the best thing for
it. Road bikes are light & low hopping doesn't mean a massive crash
landing as your legs takes the sting out of it. Surely road
frames/wheels are OK to take some little hopping about?
Are they?

Last time I saw a roadie hop over a gutter was some bloke in a green
jersey through the backroads of Paris on the tele.


--
Marx SS



Yes....let's all buckle our rims. Me thinks your from the LBS...business
must be a little slow....so your trolling for a stack of freshly bent rims
that need to be trued....



If you can't make small jumps without buckling rims then either your
wheels are crap or you're not doing it right.

Good wheels (road or otherwise) are plenty strong enough.
(with the obvious exception of lightweight low spoke count race wheels)

--
Nick