Re: How many prefer wide Q?

[John Forrest Tomlinson]

On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:46:57 -0000, Chalo <chalo.colina@gmail.com>
wrote:

>I have been riding a number of different bikes these days, and one of
>the things I have noticed many times before has come to my attention
>again: I have a better, smoother, more natural pedal stroke on a bike
>with a large tread width (high Q factor).
>
>On a bike with a narrow tread, I tend to splay my knees outwards
>without thinking about it, I guess so that I can more easily aim my
>feet back towards the centerline of the bike; basically, I tend to
>pedal bow-legged. Also, my feet wander further and further towards
>the outer end of the pedals, until I feel them trying to tip off the
>edge and pull them back inwards. I have to maintain effort to keep
>from doing both of these things when I ride a narrow-treaded bike.
>
>When the bike has a very wide tread (and I have had a few bikes with
>BB spindles over 170mm), I don't have any problem with the
>aforementioned pedaling quirks. My knees stay in line with my feet,
>and my feet stay centered on the pedals.
>
>While I am a bigger than normal guy,

How much bigger?

How much wider?
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[Chalo]

John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:
>
> Chalo<chalo.col...@gmail.com>
> >
> >While I am a bigger than normal guy,
>
> How much bigger?

I'm 6'8" tall and over 350 lbs., so I guess that would be about two
and a half inches taller and about seventy-five pounds heavier than
the average, you know, real man.

http://www.carnera.org/images/primo6.jpg

> How much wider?

I'd be willing to bet that my hip sockets haven't gotten any further
apart since I weighed 220. I definitely noticed the same knee splay
problem I described earlier when I weighed that much. At that time I
only owned one bike, so I was not able to correlate the problem with
tread width.

Chalo